"Not a Single Gram": Iran Tells Pakistan's Army Chief Its Enriched Uranium Stays Put

"Not a Single Gram": Iran Tells Pakistan

Iran has told Pakistan's army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, that it will not ship any of its enriched uranium abroad and will not negotiate with the United States until Washington takes steps to rebuild trust.

"Not a single gram of enriched uranium will be removed from Iran," Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of Iran's National Security Council, said in a statement carried by Iranian state television after meeting Munir in Tehran on Tuesday. He called the nuclear material "a great asset and a national treasure of the Iranian people." Iran's uranium stockpile is enriched to 60 percent purity, close to the 90 percent level needed for weapons, according to AFP.

Munir, who is visiting Tehran as part of Pakistan's mediation efforts between Iran and the United States, also met President Masoud Pezeshkian and parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. Qalibaf said Washington must first meet seven Iranian conditions, including ending the US blockade on Iranian ports and lifting sanctions on oil exports. With diplomacy stalled and a US naval blockade still in place, Tehran's message to its Pakistani mediator was blunt: no uranium leaves, and no talks begin, until its demands are met.

Source: AFP

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