Iran Ready for Negotiations: Rouhani         

Iran President Hassan Rouhani announced on Wednesday that his country is ready for “just” negotiations, but will not accept any surrender. He did not give any further details.

Rouhani seemed to be referring to possible negotiations with the U.S. President Donald Trump, who revealed earlier his willingness to hold talks with Iran, Reuters reported.

“As long as I have the responsibility for the executive duties of the country, we are completely ready for just, legal and honest negotiations to solve the problems,” Rouhani said, according to his official website.

“But at the same time we are not ready to sit at the table of surrender under the name of negotiations.”

Noteworthy, earlier this month, Iran announced that its stockpile of enriched uranium would exceed the 3.6 percent limit set out by the 2015 pact “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)” with world powers.

It confirmed that it wants to salvage the nuclear deal and called on other parties to meet their obligations.

The announcement points out that Tehran is reducing its commitments to the 2015 deal.

Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Abbas Araghchi said ”Iran had given enough time to diplomacy and its actions were not a violation of the pact.”

“European governments had failed to fulfill their obligations under the pact,” he said.

Meanwhile, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran confirmed that raising its enrichment of uranium is not subjected to limit.

“We will enrich uranium to the level that is needed for the Bushehr reactor,” Behrouz Kamalvandi, Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization spokesman said.

The announcement comes at a time of sharply increased U.S.-Iranian confrontation, a year after Washington fully  withdrew from the deal and re-imposed wide-ranging sanctions on Iran.