Tehran: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Tuesday that the country’s military capabilities are unrestricted, ahead of a second round of negotiations with the United States on its nuclear program.
“National security, defense and military power are the red lines of the Islamic Republic of Iran and can’t be discussed or negotiated under any circumstances,” said Guard spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini. Race.
Iran and the United States will hold another round of talks in Muscat on Saturday, and a week later, senior officials will face the highest level of discussions since the 2015 nuclear deal collapse.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who withdrew from his first term from a 2015 deal, has resumed his “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran since returning to office in January.
In March, he wrote a letter to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and warned that military action might be taken if Tehran refused.
Trump addressed reporters on Monday to reporters about Iran, saying “I will solve this problem” and “it’s almost easy.”
U.S. leaders also threatened to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and called Iranian authorities “militants” who should not possess nuclear weapons.
Iran has repeatedly denied seeking the atomic bomb, insisting that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, especially to provide energy.
Iranian officials later on Sunday irna The news agency said the country’s regional influence and its missile capabilities belong to the “red line” in the speech.
Iranian officials and media said on April 12, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with Iranian officials and media with “indirect” talks with Oman’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
Negotiations are the highest-level Iran-U.S. nuclear negotiations since the 2015 agreement collapsed, and what they formally know is a common integrated plan of action.
The agreement provides Iran’s relief from international sanctions in exchange for its nuclear program.
Neither Tehran nor Washington have had diplomatic enemies since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, and they called the latest negotiations “constructive.”
Araghchi’s office said he will travel to Moscow this weekend to hold talks with Russia, a close ally of Iran and a party to the 2015 nuclear deal.
Moscow welcomes Iran-US negotiations as it pushes for diplomatic solutions and warns that any military confrontation will be a “global disaster.”
