Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that US President Donald Trump's positions have changed by 180 degrees compared with the past, and that Tehran will never forgo its right to enrich uranium — 'they too will have to accept this,' according to a statement carried by Persian-language media tracked by Israeli channels.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday claimed that the US position on Iran's nuclear program has fundamentally shifted under President Donald Trump. Speaking to Iranian state-aligned media, Pezeshkian said 'Trump's positions have changed by 180 degrees compared to the past,' and that Tehran will not abandon uranium enrichment — asserting that Washington will ultimately have no choice but to accept it.
Pezeshkian's remarks follow a period of intense negotiations between Washington and Tehran, marked by a flurry of uncharacteristically upbeat statements from Trump about the emerging deal. The president has hinted he may accept a 15-year enrichment suspension by Iran, with a permanent cap on low-level enrichment, according to a New York Times interview reported Monday. Trump also issued a statement Thursday praising the agreement, declaring 'Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.'
However, Pezeshkian's defiant language — insisting on the right to enrich and calling a US reversal 'forced' — suggests that significant gaps remain over the final scope of Iran's enrichment program. The Iranian president's claim that 'the rules of the game have changed' echoes his earlier remarks on Sunday, in which he also noted that the US had dropped earlier demands to include Iran's ballistic missile program in the talks. No direct US response to Pezeshkian's latest statement has been reported as of Sunday afternoon.
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