Iran’s Foreign Minister has admitted that the country’s nuclear sites suffered a “highly and serious” loss in recent US and Israeli bomb blasts.
Abbas Aragchi told a state broadcaster on Thursday evening that the damage was being assessed by Iran’s nuclear power organization.
However, a few hours ago, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the strike did not disrupt the country’s nuclear program. Khameni was responding to US President Donald Trump’s claim that bombs did not “completely” the three atomic sites.
Khamenei said that the US attacks have failed to “achieve anything important”.
The supreme leader, who has been hidden since the war with Israel on 13 June, insisted that Trump had “exaggerated” the influence of bombs, and announced a victory over the US and Israel.
But Araghchi’s comment creates a different impression.
The Foreign Minister also said that there was no plan to resume nuclear dialogues with the US. Iran canceled a sixth round conversation when Israel started its attacks.
“I would like to clearly tell that no compromise, arrangement or negotiation has been made to start a new negotiation,” he said.
He said that the government was investigating what was in the “Iranian people’s interest”, saying that its approach to diplomacy would take a “new look”.
He did not say what he meant.
In an attempt to bring Iran back to the conversation table, the Trump administration has discussed the possibility of helping Iran access to $ 30BN to make $ 30bn to $ 30bn to free billions of dollars in restricted Iranian funds, CNN reported.
But developments in Iran can obstruct such a step.
On Wednesday, the Parliament of Iran approved a bill to prevent cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Global Nuclear Watchdog. If it is implemented, it would mean that Iran is no longer committed to allow nuclear inspectors in its sites.
Israel has said that its aggressive against Iran was what it claims to have planned to develop Iranian nuclear weapons.
Iran has always emphasized its atomic program which is only for civil purposes.
The US joined the struggle directly in the last weekend, the striking facilities in Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, before Trump demanded a rapid mediation of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the intelligence collected by the US and Israel “damaged the nuclear program a lot, set it back for years”.
A leak initial pentagon assessment Reduced the importance of damage and said that US attacks only set Iran’s nuclear program back for a few months. The leak has been rejected by the administration.
Iran’s Health Ministry said that 610 people were killed during Israel’s 12 days, while Israeli officials said that 28 were killed in Israel.
