JAKARTA - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei insists stopping 100 percent uranium enrichment goes against Iran's interests. Tehran rejects the US's main demands in talks to resolve decades of dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
The US proposal for the new nuclear deal was delivered to Iran on Saturday last week by Oman, mediating talks between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
After five rounds of negotiations, some of the difficult-to-bridge problems still exist, including Iran's insistence on maintaining uranium enrichment in its territory and Tehran's refusal to send the entire stockpile of enriched uranium overseas - a possible raw material for the nuclear bomb.
Khamenei, who has a final say in all state matters, said nothing about stopping negotiations.
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He said the US proposal contradicted the Iranian state's confidence in independence and the principle of 'We Can'.
"The enrichment of uranium is key to our nuclear program and the enemy has focused on enrichment," Khamenei said in a televised address to commemorate the anniversary of the death of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
"The proposal proposed by America 100% goes against our interests. The rude and arrogant American leaders have repeatedly demanded that we not have a nuclear program. Who do you decide whether Iran should have enrichment?", he continued.
Tehran said it wanted to master nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and had long denied accusations by Western countries it was trying to develop nuclear weapons.
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