Iran warns Trump on threats, nuclear talks to continue

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian says US President Donald Trump speaks simultaneously about peace and threats.

"Which should we believe?" Pezeshkian said at a naval event in Tehran.

"On the one hand, he speaks of peace and on the other, he threatens with the most advanced tools of mass killing."

Pezeshkian said Tehran would continue Iran-US nuclear talks but is not afraid of threats.

"We are not seeking war," he said.

Trump said on Friday that Iran had a US proposal about its nuclear program and knows it needs to move quickly to resolve a decades-long dispute.

"More importantly, they know they have to move quickly or something bad - something bad's going to happen," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One after departing the United Arab Emirates, according to an audio recording of the remarks.

However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in a post on X said Tehran had not received a US proposal.

"There is no scenario in which Iran abandons its hard-earned right to (uranium) enrichment for peaceful purposes..." he said.

Pezeshkian said Iran would not "back down from our legitimate rights".

"Because we refuse to bow to bullying, they say we are source of instability in the region," he said.

A fourth round of Iran-US talks ended in Oman last Sunday. A new round has not been scheduled yet.

Successive US administrations have sought to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. A sustained effort by world powers during the Barack Obama administration culminated in a 2015 agreement called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

But when Trump succeeded Obama as US president, he unilaterally withdrew the US from the nuclear agreement in 2018, causing the deal to crumble.

Despite ongoing talks, the Trump administration has continued to impose sanctions on Iran.