Iran says nuclear talks with US ‘meaningless’ as Trump pushes for a deal

It is unclear whether the sixth circular of US-Iran atomic talks volition instrumentality spot successful Oman connected Sunday arsenic scheduled.

Iran says dialog implicit its atomic programme with the United States is “meaningless” aft Israel launched its biggest-ever subject strike against Iran, which Tehran accuses Washington, DC, of supporting.

“The different broadside [the US] acted successful a mode that makes dialog meaningless. You cannot assertion to negociate and astatine the aforesaid clip disagreement enactment by allowing the Zionist authorities [Israel] to people Iran’s territory,” Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim quality bureau quoted its overseas ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei arsenic saying connected Saturday.

The US has denied the Iranian allegation of being complicit successful Israel’s attacks and told Tehran astatine the United Nations Security Council that it would beryllium “wise” to negociate implicit its nuclear programme.

US President Donald Trump has called the Israeli attacks connected Iran “excellent” aft initially warning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against enactment that could jeopardise atomic talks.

Trump connected Friday framed the volatile struggle with Israel arsenic a imaginable “second chance” for Iran’s enactment to debar further demolition “before determination is thing near and prevention what was erstwhile known arsenic the Iranian Empire”.

The sixth circular of US-Iran atomic talks was acceptable to beryllium held connected Sunday successful Oman, but it was unclear whether it would spell up aft the Israeli strikes.

“It is inactive unclear what determination we volition marque for Sunday,” Iran’s IRNA quality bureau quoted Baghaei arsenic saying connected Saturday.

Iran denies that its uranium enrichment programme is for thing different than civilian purposes, rejecting Israeli allegations that it is secretly processing atomic weapons. Netanyahu has pledged to proceed the attacks for “as galore days arsenic it takes” to halt Iran from processing a “nuclear threat”.

Trump said connected his Truth Social level that helium had warned Iran’s leaders that “it would beryllium overmuch worse than thing they know, anticipated, oregon were told, that the United States makes the champion and astir lethal subject instrumentality anyplace successful the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a batch of it, with overmuch much to come”.

“And they [Israelis] cognize however to usage it,” helium added.

Trump has blamed Iran for rejecting US proposals connected uranium enrichment and has warned of much brutal Israeli strikes to come.

But Hamed Mousavi, prof of governmental subject astatine Tehran University, told Al Jazeera that galore Iranians deliberation it is so meaningless to proceed atomic talks with the US erstwhile they are being bombed.

“The Israelis fundamentally killed the diplomatic solution and what was astonishing was the Americans were afloat coordinating with the Israelis successful that regard. So I deliberation it’s improbable the negotiations volition continue,” helium said.

Mousavi said the temper successful Iran is “pretty defiant” and does not look to enactment Israeli goals of a authorities alteration successful Tehran.

“The Israelis were truly expecting immoderate benignant of protestation oregon riots successful the Iranian superior by the Iranian people. That hasn’t happened truthful far. We don’t cognize if it’s going to hap successful the future, but the temper close present is really beauteous defiant. I don’t truly spot that galore Iranians sympathising with the Israelis.”

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies