Iran's President to Trump: I will not negotiate, 'do whatever the hell you want'

By Parisa Hafezi

(Reuters) -President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would not negociate with the U.S. portion being threatened, telling President Donald Trump to "do immoderate the hellhole you want", Iranian authorities media reported connected Tuesday.

"It is unacceptable for america that they (the U.S.) springiness orders and marque threats. I won’t adjacent negociate with you. Do immoderate the hellhole you want", authorities media quoted Pezeshkian arsenic saying.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said connected Saturday that Tehran would not beryllium bullied into negotiations, a time aft Trump said helium had sent a missive urging Iran to prosecute successful talks connected a caller atomic deal.

While expressing openness to a woody with Tehran, Trump has reinstated the "maximum pressure" run helium applied successful his archetypal word arsenic president to isolate Iran from the planetary system and thrust its lipid exports down towards zero.

In an interrogation with Fox Business, Trump said past week, "There are 2 ways Iran tin beryllium handled: militarily, oregon you marque a deal" to forestall Tehran from acquiring atomic weapons.

Iran has agelong denied wanting to make a atomic weapon. However, it is "dramatically" accelerating enrichment of uranium to up to 60% purity, adjacent to the astir 90% weapons-grade level, the IAEA has warned.

Iran has accelerated its atomic enactment since 2019, a twelvemonth aft then-President Trump ditched Tehran's 2015 atomic pact with six satellite powers and reimposed sanctions that person crippled the country's economy.

(Additional reporting by Jaidaa Ahmad Writing and reporting by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Hugh Lawson)