Iran opposes US demands to halt uranium enrichment, with Khamenei asserting Iran’s capability to produce nuclear fuel and its nuclear program as a matter of national pride.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that abandoning uranium enrichment was "100%" against the country's interests, rejecting a central U.S. demand in talks to resolve a decades-long dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Iran has dramatically increased its stockpile of uranium needed to create nuclear weapons and has fallen short of compliance with international regulators, according to an IAEA report.

An Axios report revealed the United States will allow Iran to continue limited uranium enrichement under certain conditions as part of its nuclear deal with the country.

By Francois Murphy and John Irish VIENNA (Reuters) -U.N. inspectors monitoring Iran's Fordow nuclear site confronted a major gap in their knowledge last year as they watched trucks carrying advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges roll into the facility dug into a mountain south of Tehran.

A senior Iranian official told CNN the new nuclear deal proposal presented to Tehran in recent days is “incoherent and disjointed,” as sources familiar with the progress of the talks said the momentum behind negotiations to secure a new deal appears to be collapsing.

The Iranian Foreign Minister says he has spoken by phone with the director of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency after a report from the agency said Iran is further increasing its stockpile of uranium