Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that Tehran will not relinquish uranium enrichment in talks with Washington, dismissing U.S. threats of war as intimidation.
The minister told a forum in Tehran that the country had little trust in Washington and even doubted that the U.S. side was taking renewed negotiations seriously.
"Why do we insist so much on enrichment and refuse to give it up, even if a war is imposed on us? Because no one has the right to dictate our behavior," Araghchi said.
"Their military deployment in the region does not scare us," he said, referring to the arrival of an aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, in the Arabian Sea.
The United States and Iran reopened negotiations Friday, for the first time in years, in Oman.
