7 hours agoIranian Minister: Tehran will not abandon the nuclear program
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)Iran has no plans to abandon its nuclear programme, including enriching uranium, despite major damage to its centres, as a result of US attacks last month, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arghchi has said. In an interview for the American TV channel, Fox News, Arghchi said [...]
In an interview for the American TV channel, Fox News, Arghchi said that currently enriching uranium has stopped, because “damages are serious and heavy”.
But, of course, we can't give up enrichment, because it's the achievement of our scientists”, he said, considering the whole process as “the national head”.
According to him, any nuclear agreement that can be reached should include the right to uranium enrichment Periscope.
When asked if the enriched uranium was stored somewhere by the attacks, Arghchi said that “has no detailed information”, but that Iran's Organisation for Atomic Energy is trying to “to make assessments about exactly what happened to the enriched” material.
Washington has bombed three nuclear centres in Iran on 22 June to support Israel's 12-day military offensive.
The U.S. Army has also targeted the main uranium enrichment center, Fordo, located south of Tehran.
US President Donald Trump has said several times that the attacks have resulted successfully and that all three Iranian centres “have been completely destroyed”.
Iranian minister's statements come as Tehran is expected to hold new talks on the nuclear programme with Germany, France and the United Kingdom. Talks will be held Friday in Istanbul.
As for negotiations with the United States on regional expansion, Arghchi has said Iran is open for talks, but “not direct in this period”.
He has said Tehran is willing to take any action contributing to confidence building to prove the nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes, in exchange for lifting US sanctions.
The Iranian minister has acknowledged that Iran will continue to develop and produce rockets.
Despite a considerable number of missiles heading towards Israel during the 12-day conflict, Arghchi has claimed Iran still has “a quantity of rockets to protect itself”.
Asked about the health of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatolah Ali Khamenei, who was rarely seen in public by Israeli attacks, the Iranian minister has said he has recently met, and that he enjoys the best “ ”. /REL/
