President Trump is unhappy with Iran’s latest proposal to end the war because it did not address the nuclear program, Reuters reported citing a US official. "He doesn't love the proposal," the official said, referring to Trump.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Iran’s nuclear ambitions remain the central issue in any negotiations, responding to Tehran’s latest reported proposal to postpone nuclear talks in exchange for ending the blockade and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. “There’s no doubt in my mind that at some point in the future, if this radical clerical regime remains in charge in Iran, they will decide they want a nuclear weapon,” Rubio said in an interview with Fox News. He said Iranian negotiators were likely trying to buy time and warned Washington must ensure that any agreement “definitively prevents them from sprinting towards a nuclear weapon at any point.”
The United States and Iran clashed at the United Nations on Monday after Tehran was selected as one of the vice presidents of a month-long conference reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Christopher Yeaw, assistant secretary at the US Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation, called Iran’s selection an “affront” to the treaty and said it was “beyond shameful and an embarrassment to the credibility of this conference.”
Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Reza Najafi, rejected the US criticism as “baseless and politically motivated.” He said it was “indefensible” for the United States—“the only state ever to have used nuclear weapons”—to present itself as an arbiter of compliance.
The United States accused Iran on Monday of holding the global economy “hostage” by blocking the Strait of Hormuz and using the vital waterway as leverage over its nuclear program. Speaking at a UN Security Council debate on maritime security, US envoy Dorothy Shea said the strait was “not Iran’s hostage, not Iran’s bargaining chip, not Iran’s toll road.” She accused Tehran of laying sea mines, firing on civilian ships, threatening to charge tolls and launching missiles at Gulf capitals. Shea also criticized China and Russia for vetoing a Bahrain-backed Security Council resolution aimed at protecting freedom of navigation in the strait.
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