STORY: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday (June 3) Tehran would not bow to pressure by the United States to dismantle its nuclear program.

"We will not compromise our scientific, expert and nuclear rights in any way," Pezeshkian said in a speech televised by the state broadcaster.

Iran is poised to reject a U.S. proposal to end a decades-old nuclear dispute, a senior Iranian diplomat who is close to Iran's negotiating team told Reuters on Monday, dismissing it as a "non-starter" that fails to address Tehran's interests or soften Washington's stance on uranium enrichment.

The U.S. proposal for a new nuclear deal was presented to Iran on Saturday by Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi, who was on a short visit to Tehran and has been mediating talks between Tehran and Washington.

After five rounds of discussions between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, several obstacles remain.

Among them are Iran's rejection of a U.S. demand that it commit to scrapping uranium enrichment and its refusal to ship abroad its entire existing stockpile of highly enriched uranium - possible raw material for nuclear bombs.

Tehran says it wants to master nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and has long denied accusations by Western powers that it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

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VIDEO SHOWS: SOUNDBITES FROM IRANIAN PRESIDENT MASOUD PEZESHKIAN

EDITORS NOTE: RESENDING VIDEO TO ADD A WHITE FLASH BETWEEN LAST TWO SHOTS

SHOWS: TEHRAN, IRAN (JUNE 3, 2025) (POOL VIA WANA - No use BBC Persian. No use VOA Persian. No use Manoto. No use Iran International.)

1. IRANIAN PRESIDENT PEZESHKIAN SPEAKING FROM LECTERN

2. ATTENDEES LISTENING

3. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRANIAN PRESIDENT, MASOUD PEZESHKIAN, SAYING:

"We want peace and security. We are not looking for nuclear weapons. Those who claim that we are looking for nuclear weapons and mass destruction, it is you that is scaring Muslims with atomic weapons and mass destruction in the region."

4. PEZESHKIAN SPEAKING FROM LECTERN

5. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRANIAN PRESIDENT, MASOUD PEZESHKIAN, SAYING:

"We will not compromise our scientific, expert and nuclear rights in any way. They can only dream of such a thing, they think that they can distance Muslims and Islamic countries from their indisputable rights to knowledge, science and creativity by threatening or luring them."

6. PEZESHKIAN SPEAKING FROM LECTERN

7. (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRANIAN PRESIDENT, MASOUD PEZESHKIAN, SAYING: (SOUNDBITE OVER WIDE SHOT OF PEZESHKIAN AT LECTERN)

"No conscious and free person would accept the murder, looting and slaughter that the Israelis are carrying out in the region with the support of the United States."

8. WHITE FLASH

9. PEZESHKIAN SPEAKING FROM LECTERN