Iran rejects Trump’s ‘bullying’ on nuclear talks, as threats ratchet up

The content of the letter is not far removed from Trump's public statements and repeats the same talking points,

foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei told a news conference in Tehran

Michael Waltzwhite House national security adviser

All options are on the table, ... If Iran doesn’t “hand over … the missiles, the weaponization, the enrichment” of nuclear materials, “they can face a whole series of other consequences.”

White House national security adviser Michael Waltz said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week

If Iran wants a deal, the path starts with ceasing its escalatory nuclear activities, fulfilling its safeguard obligations, building international confidence and allowing the Agency to provide assurance that its nuclear program is exclusively peaceful,

Howard Solomon, the interim U.S. representative to IAEA said at the agency’s March 4 board meeting

Abbas Araghchiiranian Foreign Minister

The United States government has no authority, or business, dictating Iranian foreign policy. That era ended in 1979,

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in a Sunday post on X, wrote

We have capabilities [but] the U.S. has better ones,

a person familiar with Israel’s views said recently

If Tehran doesn’t end its support for ... America will hold you fully accountable and, we won’t be nice about it.”

Trump said in a social media post

If the aim of talks is to lift the sanctions, negotiation with this U.S. government … will not remove them

he said

It is Iran that has repeatedly funded, resourced, trained and helped the Houthis target not only U.S. warships, but global commerce, and has helped the Houthis shut down two of the world’s most strategic sea lanes,

he said