Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday a US proposal for a nuclear agreement went against the country’s national interest, and that Tehran would not seek Washington’s approval for its decisions.

“Independence means not waiting for the green light from America and the likes of America,” Khamenei said, adding that the proposal was “100 percent against” the ideals of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The supreme leader insisted Iran would not abandon its uranium enrichment program, saying that without enrichment its nuclear program was “useless,” and asking of the US: “Who are you to tell us whether we should have a nuclear program or not?”

The US on Saturday presented Iran with a proposal for a deal, after five rounds of negotiations between envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi — with a sixth potentially coming this weekend in the Middle East, according to an Axios report overnight Monday-Tuesday.

The same report, citing a senior Iranian official, said the Islamic Republic was open to a deal based on the establishment of an international consortium for the civilian enrichment of uranium — but only if the consortium was located within Iran’s borders.

The negotiations have been at apparent loggerheads over the issue of uranium enrichment, with US officials stating on many occasions that Iran must not be allowed to enrich uranium at all, and Iran insisting that it will not give up its right to do so.

The US has not been entirely consistent on this point, however — to the chagrin of Israeli officials, who insist on no enrichment — with some statements indicating openness to a deal like the one inked by the Obama administration in 2015 that would allow low-level enrichment and, for as long as the deal was in effect, place it under international inspection.

The US proposal presented to Iran on Saturday reportedly allows Iran to retain low levels of enrichment for civilian uses like nuclear medicine and commercial power if it agrees to shut down its heavily protected underground sites for a period of time.

The deal as laid out in an Axios report on Monday would stop Iran from new research and development of centrifuges. It would also require Iran to stop enriching the higher levels it currently reaches and to mothball its underground enrichment facilities for a to-be-agreed-upon period.

However, Iran would be able to keep enriching in above-ground facilities to 3 percent, the level needed to fuel a civilian nuclear reactor.

The agreement calls for the eventual creation of a regional consortium to handle uranium enrichment for civilian uses — a plan first studied more than a decade ago in negotiations that led to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. US President Donald Trump withdrew the US from that deal during his first term as president.

The consortium would in theory include the US, Iran, and countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and possibly Turkey, with its enrichment activity monitored by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, according to Axios.

Sanctions would be eased after Iran “demonstrates real commitment” to the terms of the deal, as determined by Washington and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday a US proposal for a nuclear agreement went against the country’s national interest, and that Tehran would not seek Washington’s approval for its decisions.

“Independence means not waiting for the green light from America and the likes of America,” Khamenei said, adding that the proposal was “100 percent against” the ideals of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The supreme leader insisted Iran would not abandon its uranium enrichment program, saying that without enrichment its nuclear program was “useless,” and asking of the US: “Who are you to tell us whether we should have a nuclear program or not?”

The US on Saturday presented Iran with a proposal for a deal, after five rounds of negotiations between envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi — with a sixth potentially coming this weekend in the Middle East, according to an Axios report overnight Monday-Tuesday.

The same report, citing a senior Iranian official, said the Islamic Republic was open to a deal based on the establishment of an international consortium for the civilian enrichment of uranium — but only if the consortium was located within Iran’s borders.