Source: US News & World Report
“Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said U.S. demands that Tehran refrain from enriching uranium are ‘excessive and outrageous,’ state media reported, voicing doubts whether nuclear talks will lead to an agreement. ‘I don’t think nuclear talks with the U.S. will bring results. I don’t know what will happen,’ Khamenei said, adding that Washington should refrain from making outrageous demands in the negotiations. Despite expectations that a fifth round of negotiations might take place over the weekend in Rome, nuclear talks are on shaky ground as both Iran and the U.S. have clashed on the issue of nuclear enrichment. Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said on Monday that talks would fail if Washington insists that Tehran refrains from domestic enrichment of uranium, which the U.S. says is a possible pathway to developing nuclear bombs. Tehran says its nuclear energy programme has entirely peaceful purposes.” (05/20/25)