Iran has rejected the proposal to send its enriched uranium to a third country, with Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei telling Pakistani defence chief Asim Munir that Tehran would not allow any nuclear material to leave the country. As part of Pakistan's effort to end the Iran-US war, Islamabad has proposed that Tehran should transfer part of its enriched uranium to another country.
"Not even a tiny bit of enriched nuclear material will leave Iran," Rezaei, Iran's secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, told the visiting Pakistani military leader, who is in Tehran as part of a renewed push to mediate a peace deal between the Islamic Republic and the United States.
"Such materials constitute a major asset and national wealth for the Iranian people, intended for use within the country," he added.
Rezaei insisted that there would be no negotiations with the US until Washinton takes meaningful steps to build trust -- "a process that must begin with the fulfilment of Iran's conditions."
Iran's chief negotiator and parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and President Masoud Pezeshkian also made similar remarks to Munir.
