Iran has said that its enriched uranium was not part of the current negotiations with the US, according to the deputy secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.
“This issue is not on the agenda of the negotiations," Ali Bagheri said on Wednesday in remarks carried by Iran's semi-official news agency Fars.
The comments came on the margins of an international security conference in the Russian capital Moscow, the outlet reported.
On Monday, US President Donald Trump said Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium will be either transferred to the US "immediately" to be destroyed or "destroyed in place, or at another acceptable location."
The statements come as Washington and Tehran continue the Pakistan-mediated diplomatic process to end the war that started with US and Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28 and was followed by Iranian retaliation.
Amid the ongoing diplomatic process, Iran’s intelligence ministry said on Wednesday that the goal of the United States and Israel remained to overthrow the Islamic Republic and break up the country.
"The enemy is now pursuing through other means the objective of overthrowing and partitioning the country, which it openly declared at the beginning of the recent war but failed to achieve through military attack," the ministry said in a statement carried by Iranian media.
