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Iranian lawmaker Manouchehr Mottaki said there would have been “no point” in negotiations if Tehran had known from the beginning that the U.S. was seeking zero uranium enrichment.
Mottaki, who represents Tehran and previously served as Iran’s foreign minister, made the remarks to Iran’s ISNA news agency.
“I have no objection to going to the negotiating table, but we should have looked more closely at how to proceed,” Mottaki said.
Mottaki said Iran would have changed its approach if it had understood earlier that Washington’s final position was to demand no enrichment.
“If we had concluded that their final opinion was non-enrichment, naturally there would have been no point in negotiating with them, because this issue is fundamentally not related to America,” he said.
Mottaki said the issue became clearer after the first round of talks.
After that round, he said, U.S. President Donald Trump “started whispering outside about zero enrichment.”
He also said U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker did not “dare” mention zero enrichment during the talks.
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