ARCHIVEAL PHOTO: U.S. Deputy mediate east Envoy Morgan Ortagus speaks to the UN safety Council. © Getty Images / Michael M. Santiago
The United States and Iran argue with the UN about conditions for resuming atomic talks, and Tehran finds Washington's request for zero uranium enrichment policy unrealistic.
U.S. Deputy mediate east Envoy Morgan Ortagus said on Tuesday the UN safety Council that Washington "is inactive open to formal talks with Iran, but only erstwhile Tehran is ready for a direct and constructive dialogue".
"However, we have clearly identified certain expectations of any agreement. First of all, there must be no enrichment of uranium in Iran, and that remains our principle" – she said.
Ortagus claimed U.S. president Donald Trump, who unilaterally withdrew Washington from the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan (JCPOA) with Iran in 2018, “he stretched out his diplomatic hand” to Tehran during both of its terms.
"But alternatively of taking this diplomatic step, you inactive interfere in the fire. Step distant from the fire, sir, and accept president Trump's diplomatic hand” She said, addressing Iran's envoy to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani.
Iravani replied that the authorities in Tehran "they appreciate all fair and sensible negotiations, but insisting on a zero enrichment policy is contrary to our rights as a associate of the NPT [the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of atomic Weapons]".
Washington's demands mean that "do not search fair negotiations" – he said.
"They want to impose on Iran their prearranged intentions.
Iran will not bow to any force or threats."
Negotiations between the parties on the 2015 JCPOA resumption, whereby Tehran gave up its military atomic ambitions in exchange for the abolition of global sanctions, have remained in stalemate since June erstwhile the United States and Israel carried out coordinated attacks on Iran's atomic facilities in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
They were described as preventive attacks to halt Tehran's advancement in the work on the atomic bomb.
Iran's authorities say their atomic programme is purely peaceful.
Last month, Iran's president Masud Pezeshkian said Tehran would rebuild the destroyed atomic facilities with ‘great force’.
Iran's abroad Minister, Abbas Araghchi, besides stressed that Iran "cannot halt uranium enrichment".
Trump had previously warned that the United States could resume attacks if Iran restarted its atomic facilities.
Translated by Google Translator
source: https://www.rt.com/news/629995-un-iran-nuclear-un/