Iran signaled Monday that it still has objections to the West’s “final” proposal to restore the Obama-era nuclear deal, while officials in Tehran justified the weekend stabbing of author Salman Rushdie and Iranian state-controlled media warned that former President Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo could soon face similar violent attacks.
The stark threats from the Islamic republic came amid the Biden administration’s last-ditch push to revive a multilateral agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for economic sanctions relief.
The administration reiterated Monday that it won’t abandon negotiations with Iran, even after Tehran’s “disgusting” response to the attack on Mr.