US slams Iran over new demands in N-talks - Asian News from UK

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50% : Price said there was not another round of planned talks with Iran at the moment.
47% : Special envoy Robert Malley says that Iran has made alarming progress on enriching uranium and is hampering talks on a revived nuclear deal by making a series of unrelated demands...reports Asian Lite NewsIran has repeatedly introduced, over the recent weeks and months, extraneous demands that go beyond the confines of the nuclear deal struck in 2015, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Tuesday, saying that the new demands suggest a lack of seriousness on Tehran's behalf.
46% :Iran has enough highly enriched uranium on hand to make a bomb and could do so in a matter of weeks, he said.
45% : It's between Iran and itself.
45% : Under the nuclear pact, Tehran limited its uranium enrichment program, a potential pathway to nuclear weapons, though Iran says it seeks only civilian atomic energy.
45% : Siamak Namazi, who was detained in 2015 and is the longest-held Iranian American prisoner, made a plea for help in a New York Times piece on Sunday headlined: "I'm an American, Why Have I Been Left to Rot as a Hostage of Iran?""We hope that regardless of what happens with the nuclear talks, we'll be able to resolve this issue because it weighs in our minds every single day," Malley said.
42% : "The discussion that really needs to take place right now is not so much between us and Iran, although we're prepared to have that.
42% : Malley said Americans were also working a parallel track to secure the release of Americans detained in Iran.
40% : Meanwhile, special envoy Robert Malley said that Iran has made alarming progress on enriching uranium and is hampering talks on a revived nuclear deal by making a series of unrelated demands.
40% :Tehran had "added demands that I think anyone looking at this would view as having nothing to do with the nuclear deal, things that they've wanted in the past," Malley said.
40% :Iran ramped up enrichment of uranium after the US pulled out of the deal in 2018, and Malley said it was now much closer to having enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb.
38% : Indirect talks between Tehran and Washington aimed at breaking an impasse over how to salvage Iran's 2015 nuclear pact ended in Doha, Qatar, last week without the hoped-for progress.
38% :French President Emmanuel Macron said he would make every effort to make Tehran see reason and return to the negotiating table.
37% : Now Tehran is much closer to having enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb, Malley said, though they do not appear to have resumed their weaponization program.
36% : On a visit to Paris, new Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Iran was "violating the agreement and continues to develop its nuclear program."
31% : "State Department spokesperson Ned Price said there was currently not another round of talks on the book with Iran, adding that Tehran has repeatedly introduced, over the recent weeks and months, extraneous demands that go beyond the confines of the nuclear deal struck in 2015.
7% : Then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the deal in 2018, calling it too soft on Iran, and reimposed harsh U.S. sanctions, spurring Tehran to breach nuclear limits in the pact.

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