{"id":280358,"date":"2026-02-08T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280358\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:37:07","slug":"will-never-give-up-nuclear-enrichment-iran-strikes-defiant-tone-as-us-talks-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280358\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Will never give up nuclear enrichment&#8217;: Iran strikes defiant tone as US talks continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/irans-fm-abbas-araghchi.jpg\" alt=\"'Will never give up nuclear enrichment': Iran strikes defiant tone as US talks continue\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Iran will \u201cnever\u201d give up uranium enrichment, even if war is imposed on the country, Iran\u2019s foreign minister said on Sunday. Speaking at a forum in Tehran, Abbas Araghchi said Iran had \u201cpaid a very heavy price\u201d for what it describes as its peaceful nuclear programme. \u201cWhy 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 behaviour,\u201d he said, two days after meeting US envoy Steve Witkoff in Oman. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Americans Will Suffer 3000-4000 Casualties&#8217;: Iran Shoots Down Trump&#8217;s Secret Offer With Huge Threat<\/p>\n<p> Speaking on Friday, Araghchi had said that enrichment is Iran\u2019s \u201cinalienable right and must continue\u201d, though he added that Tehran was ready to reach a \u201creassuring agreement\u201d on the issue. He described the latest round of indirect negotiations in Muscat as \u201ca good start\u201d, revealing that an opportunity arose to shake hands with the American delegation. Still, he cautioned that \u201cthere is a long way to go to build trust\u201d and said further talks would resume soon.US President Donald Trump called the discussions \u201cvery good\u201d and signalled another round next week. At the same time, Washington has maintained pressure. A fresh executive order imposing tariffs on countries doing business with Iran has come into effect, alongside new sanctions targeting shipping entities and vessels linked to Iranian oil exports.Military tensions remain close to the surface. Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, with US Central Command publicising the trip. Witkoff said the carrier group was \u201ckeeping us safe and upholding President Trump\u2019s message of peace through strength\u201d.Araghchi warned that any American attack would be met with retaliation against US bases in the region. He also insisted Iran\u2019s missile programme was \u201cnever negotiable\u201d because it concerns national defence, rejecting calls from Washington and Israel to widen the scope of talks beyond the nuclear file.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to meet Trump in Washington, with his office saying any agreement must include limits on Iran\u2019s ballistic missiles and an end to its support for regional allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran will \u201cnever\u201d give up uranium enrichment, even if war is imposed on the country, Iran\u2019s foreign minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50433,85,144078,144075,46,43,144077,144076],"class_list":{"0":"post-280358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-abbas-araghchi","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-iran-missile-program","11":"tag-iran-nuclear-enrichment","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uranium-enrichment-rights","15":"tag-us-iran-talks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}