Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: In response to visiting United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s remarks that Iran can never have nuclear weapons, and they need to turn over their highly enriched uranium, the Iranian Embassy in New Delhi on May 24 said that they consider “the peaceful use of nuclear science and technology to be the legitimate and inalienable right of its people’’.
The embassy stated that Iran will never relinquish this lawful and internationally recognised right.
Regarding the US-Iran negotiations, on the sidelines of an official reception in New Delhi on May 23, Rubio said, “There’s been some progress made…Even as I speak to you now, there’s some work being done…This issue needs to be solved, as the President (Donald Trump) said one way or the other. Iran can never have nuclear weapons. The straits need to be opened without tolls. They need to turn over the highly enriched uranium.”
