We have talked a lot lately about the Iranian regime and the fact that they will NEVER stop. NEVER. It is the perspective they have of themselves: they are God's people, and their sole mission is to see all who are not them dead. They can not be trusted. I have a lot of experience with Persian culture, and lying is considered a virtue to them. We don't seem to get that, and I asked one man I was doing business with why he always lied when we both knew he was lying. He was stunned that I didn't understand it would be rude for him to tell me something that would upset me, so lying is a virtue. On the other hand, I had to terminate one of my Persian employees once for attempting to kill one of his co-workers who called him a liar. Seriously, he threatened to kill the other man over the fact that he got called out for not telling the truth. Great worker, but you can't live with people who have completely different value systems.
I just pulled this down from Epoch Times this morning:
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter for Epoch Times
6/21/2026|Updated: 6/22/2026
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday said that Tehran will not back down from ultimately trying to continue to enrich uranium, a key point of contention between the Trump administration and the Iranian regime amid talks to end hostilities.
Iranian state-run outlet PressTV quoted Pezeshkian as saying that Tehran “has not and will never back down from its fundamental right to uranium enrichment” and he claimed that the United States “has been forced to accept” the demand.
He also said through IRNA, a semi-official news outlet associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, that Iran will not attempt to produce a weapon with the enriched uranium. U.S., Israeli, and European officials have long said Iran is seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon and that hundreds of pounds of enriched uranium that Iran possesses are a short step away from being processed into material that can be used in a nuclear weapon.
The remarks were made as U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration negotiators met with Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at a Swiss mountainside resort near Lake Lucerne.
Mediators from Pakistan and Qatar were also in the room for the direct engagement. The U.S. and Iranian negotiating teams also held separate private talks with Pakistani and Qatari officials.
The U.S. government is looking to get Iran locked into negotiations over its nuclear program and to give up or dilute its enriched uranium. Vance also wants to push Tehran to commit to keeping open the Strait of Hormuz, the critical waterway through which about a fifth of world’s traded oil passes.
