Al Jazeera
President Masoud Pezeshkian says Iran seeks peace but will not be coerced into abandoning its nuclear and missile programmes.
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Iran has been asking if US sanctions against the country could be lifted.
“We are willing to hold talks under international frameworks, but not if they say you can’t have a [nuclear] science, or the right to defend yourself or else we will bomb you,” state media quoted Pezeshkian as saying.
“We want to live in this world in peace and security, but not be humiliated, and it is not acceptable that they impose upon us whatever they want and we just serve them,” he said.
Israel sees Iran as an existential threat, but Tehran says its ballistic missiles – with a range of up to 2,000km (1,200 miles) – are an important deterrent and retaliatory force against the US and Israel. It denies seeking nuclear weapons.
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Iran has been asking if US sanctions against the country could be lifted.
“We are willing to hold talks under international frameworks, but not if they say you can’t have a [nuclear] science, or the right to defend yourself or else we will bomb you,” state media quoted Pezeshkian as saying.
“We want to live in this world in peace and security, but not be humiliated, and it is not acceptable that they impose upon us whatever they want and we just serve them,” he said.
Israel sees Iran as an existential threat, but Tehran says its ballistic missiles – with a range of up to 2,000km (1,200 miles) – are an important deterrent and retaliatory force against the US and Israel. It denies seeking nuclear weapons.
