Iran’s president says his nation is not going to be intimidated by threats as Trump accuses Tehran of finishing up proxy wars.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian mentioned his nation wouldn’t “bow to any bully” in response to United States President Donald Trump’s criticism of Tehran throughout his ongoing three-day Gulf tour.
“He [Trump] thinks he can come right here, chant slogans, and scare us. For us, martyrdom is much sweeter than dying in mattress. You got here to frighten us? We is not going to bow to any bully,” he mentioned on Wednesday in feedback broadcast dwell on state TV.
Earlier within the day, through the GCC summit in Riyadh, Trump mentioned that whereas he needed to make a deal with Iran, the nation “should cease sponsoring terror, halt its bloody proxy wars, and completely and verifiably stop its pursuit of nuclear weapons”.
Washington and Tehran have held 4 conferences that had been mediated by Oman to assist attain a deal over the latter’s nuclear programme.
Whereas attending a state dinner within the Qatari capital in Doha on Wednesday, Trump repeated his publicly said want for a peaceable decision to Iran’s nuclear programme and urged the ball is in Tehran’s court docket.
“It’s a dangerous scenario, and we need to do the precise factor,” Trump mentioned. “We need to do one thing that’s going to save lots of possibly thousands and thousands of lives. As a result of issues like that get began, they usually get uncontrolled.”
On Tuesday, Trump mentioned that he needed “to make a take care of Iran”, however “if Iran’s management rejects this olive department … we could have no alternative however to inflict huge most stress”. He added that he wouldn’t enable Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
Successive US administrations have sought to forestall Iran from buying a nuclear weapon. A sustained effort by world powers through the Barack Obama administration culminated in a 2015 settlement referred to as the Joint Complete Plan of Motion (JCPOA).
However when Trump succeeded Obama as US president, he unilaterally withdrew the US from the nuclear settlement in 2018, inflicting the deal to crumble.
Regardless of ongoing talks, the Trump administration has continued to impose sanctions on Iran.
On Wednesday, the US issued sanctions focusing on Iran for efforts to domestically manufacture elements for ballistic missiles, the US Division of the Treasury mentioned.
The sanctions goal six people and 12 entities for what the Treasury Division mentioned was “their involvement in efforts to assist the Iranian regime domestically supply the manufacturing of essential supplies wanted for Tehran’s ballistic missile program”.
