There will not be nuclear weapons in Iran, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said in a Saturday interview with Channel 12.
"Military action depends on them [Iran], in whether or not they believe in taking President [Donald] Trump seriously. There won't be a deal that involves Iran with nuclear capacity," he added.
US Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff echoed similar sentiments in an interview with Breitbart on Friday. "The enrichment program can never exist in Iran, never. That's our red line," he said. He also said that its three enrichment facilities must be dismantled.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Saturday that if the United States' goal is to deprive Tehran of what he said were its nuclear rights, Tehran will not back down from "any of our rights."
Araqchi was speaking in Doha a day ahead of another round of planned nuclear talks between Iran and the US in Oman.
The nuclear talks
American and Iranian negotiating teams will once again descend on Muscat for the fourth round of nuclear talks between the nations on Sunday.
The talks, which were originally scheduled for earlier this month, were postponed due to what the Omanis termed “logistical reasons.”