ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The United States on Thursday called on the Iranian authorities to accept a proposal by Washington’s special envoy for a nuclear deal. This comes a day after Iran’s supreme leader claimed that the US “can’t do a damn thing” about his country’s nuclear program.
US special envoy Steve Witkoff has sent a “detailed proposal” to Iranian authorities, and “we encourage the Iranian regime to accept it. It is in their best interest to accept it,” State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott told Rudaw during a press briefing.
“We've also been clear again and again and again that the Iranian regime can never have a nuclear weapon, that there is a good option and a bad option in regards to that. Beyond that, it is not in our national interest to negotiate these issues publicly. But I can't say that it is in the Iranian regime's best interest to accept the proposal that was given by Special Envoy Witkoff, and again, reiterate what has been made clear from the beginning, that the Iranian regime could never have a nuclear weapon,” he added.