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Iran has reiterated its right to enrich uranium in response to the abrupt delay of Oman’s next round of nuclear negotiations with the United States.

In reference to Iran’s membership in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated on social media on Saturday that “Iran has every right to possess the full nuclear fuel cycle.”

He continued, “Many NPT members enrich uranium while completely rejecting nuclear weapons,” underscoring Iran’s claim that its nuclear activities are of a civilian nature.

In response to the US’s demand that Iran stop all enrichment activities, Araghchi remarked, “Maximalist positioning and incendiary rhetoric accomplish nothing but eroding the chances of success.”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Iran to stop its enrichment efforts in an interview with Fox News on Thursday, claiming that “the only nations in the world that enrich uranium are those with nuclear weapons.” However, nations like Germany, Japan, and Brazil do so without having nuclear weapons.

A fourth round of indirect talks between Washington and Tehran, which was originally scheduled for Saturday, was postponed, according to the comments.

In the past, I have avoided making important negotiation-related arguments public.

I’ll say that repeating lies won’t alter fundamental truths. Iran has a right to control the entire nuclear fuel cycle because it was one of the NPT’s founding signatories. Additionally, there …

Oman, who is acting as a mediator, cited “logistical reasons” for the delay. A new date is still undetermined, according to an Iranian official who told the Reuters news agency that “the US approach” would dictate the timing.

The fallout comes in response to a recent wave of US sanctions against Iran’s alleged continued support for Yemen’s Houthi rebels and its oil sales. Washington was accused of sending “contradictory messages” that undermined diplomacy by Tehran in a response.

Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot earlier this week, who claimed Iran was “on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons,” a claim Tehran refrained from calling as “simply absurd”.

Iran has consistently maintained that its nuclear program is in accordance with IAEA oversight, insisting it doesn’t seek a bomb.

Even as IAEA Chairman Rafael Grossi suggested on Wednesday that any enriched material in Iran could either be dissolved or exported if a deal was reached, Araghchi once more stated that Iran’s right to enrich was “non-negotiable.”

The diplomatic impasse comes as global powers consider whether or not meaningful progress can still be made in reviving the US’s first nuclear deal as president in 2018.

As Israel’s punishing blockade of food, water, and other essential aid to the besieged enclave continues into its third month amid relentless bombardment, at least 57 Palestinians have been starved to death in Gaza.

The Israeli-occupied Palestinians continue to use food as a weapon of war, according to Gaza’s government media office, which stated on Saturday that the majority of the victims were children, the sick, and the elderly, and that they were mostly children.

Since March 2, Gaza has been subject to total Israeli blockade, according to video released by Al Jazeera Arabic that shows numerous trucks carrying essential supplies scurrying southward on Saturday along the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, the queue stretching south beyond the city of Arish, which is located 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the Rafah border crossing.

A baby girl named Janan Saleh al-Sakafi, who passed away from malnutrition and dehydration in the Rantisi Hospital in Gaza City on Saturday, was one of the latest victims identified by Al Jazeera’s investigation. Since the start of the year, more than 9, 000 children have been taken into hospitals to receive treatment for acute malnutrition, according to the UN.

Hani Mahmoud, a journalist from Gaza City, claimed he had witnessed heartbreaking scenes of children “looking for whatever leftovers of canned food products” while looking through the trash. He added that the enclave had reached a “critical” point where local organizations were unable to provide food to displaced people and international organizations were running out of supplies.

A Palestinian displaced from Gaza City, Ahmad al-Najjar, told Al Jazeera, “Finding a single meal has become an impossible quest.” People have reported seeing charity after charity declare that they are out of supplies and are shutting down operations because they are unable to provide the population with the needed assistance.

“It’s frustrating and infuriating to have trucks parked on the other side of the fence and people being denied access while the population, even children, is in such dire condition.”

Hospitals are experiencing “acute shortages.”

With only about a week of supplies left, Suhaib al-Hams, the director of the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, claimed in a statement that medical services were experiencing “acute shortages in more than 75 percent of essential medicines.”

Without “immediate intervention,” he warned, the majority of the enclave’s medical services would shut down in order to reopen borders and allow access to medical and humanitarian aid. He added that patients who were “slowly dying without treatment every day” needed to be evacuated right away.

The Gaza Strip’s longest continuous blockade has ever been in place, and it comes as Israeli forces continue to bombard the area, injuring 275 people and killing at least 70 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry.

According to reports from Al Jazeera Arabic, two women were killed on Saturday when an Israeli aircraft attacked a home in the town of al-Fakhari near Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

A separate Israeli naval attack off the coast of Gaza City resulted in the deaths of one fisherman and the injury of another.

In an Israeli drone attack on the southern Gazans’ al-Mawasi area, which was once a “safe zone,” two Palestinians were killed later in the day.