Tension in the Middle East: Trump calls the Iranian proposal “garbage” and Tehran threatens to enrich uranium to 90%

The spokesman for the National Security Commission of the Iranian Parliament, Ebrahim Rezaei, stated this Tuesday that in the event that Iran is attacked again, one of the options is to enrich uranium to 90%, level suitable for use in nuclear weapons.

“One of Iran’s options in the event of a new attack could be 90% enrichment,” the conservative politician said in X. “We will evaluate it in Parliament,” he assured.

The highest level to which Iran has enriched so far it is 60%, of whichs has 440 kilos in whereabouts that are not clear after the Israeli and American attacks against their nuclear facilities last June and in the current war.

Since the attacks last June, the Islamic Republic does not enrich uranium for the damage suffered at its nuclear facilities.

Negotiations between Iran and the United States are at a standstill after Tehran rejected the latest American peace proposal as “unilateral and irrational.”

At the same time set its own conditions to end the conflict: recognition of Hormuz sovereignty, payment of reparations, release of blocked assets, lifting of sanctions and end of the conflict in Lebanon.

US President Donald Trump He called the Iranian proposal a “piece of garbage” and warned that the ceasefire with Iran in force since April 8 is “incredibly fragile.”

Following Trump’s comments, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf wrote in X that Iran’s armed forces were “ready to respond and teach a lesson to any aggression.”

Esmail Baghaei, spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said Tehran’s proposals They were “responsible” and “generous.”

Following his comments about the Iranian military’s readiness to respond, Ghalibaf stated in another post on “There was no alternative but to accept the rights of the Iranian people as set out in the 14-point proposal.

“The longer they take to act, the more American taxpayers will pay,” he concluded.

With agency information