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Iran’s president ahead of talks: ‘We will not relinquish our right to enrich uranium’
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian displays a memorandum of understanding signed with US President Donald Trump, in Tehran, Iran, early on June 18, 2026. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says that Tehran will not relinquish its right to enrich uranium, but is willing to provide assurances that the country is not seeking a nuclear weapon.
“What the United States demands is that Iran not build an atomic bomb. This is nothing new, and we can also state in writing that we have no intention of building a bomb,” the president’s website quotes him as saying.
“However, we will not relinquish our right to enrichment, and the other side will have no choice but to accept this right,” he adds, as Iranian and US negotiators are set to meet for talks in Switzerland today.
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