Araghchi confirmed that the US top ambition to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon further by blocking all the enrichment options, it is unlikely that flourishing will come to flourish, despite threats of intense international sanctions.
“We cannot give up enrichment because it is a performance of our own scientists. And now, more than that, it is a matter of national pride,” said Araghchi. “Our enrichment is so dear to us,” he told Bret Baier, Anker and executive editor of Special Report, in a clip that was released before the full interview.
Technicians work within an uranium conversion facility that produces unity just outside the city of Isfahan, about 254 miles (south of the capital Tehran, Iran, in the heart of the Nuclear program of Iran, March 30, 2005. (Getty Images)
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the extent of the damage to his nuclear provisions caused by the American strikes last month was “serious”, but he would not comment on whether an enriched uranium survived the strikes.
“Our facilities are damaged – seriously damaged,” said Araghchi. “The degree of this is now evaluated by our atomic energy organization.
“But as far as I know, they were seriously damaged,” he added, and noted that the damage has also stopped all enriching opportunities for the time being.
Iran maintained that it was not looking for a nuclear weapon, but in the run -up to the Israeli and American strikes, security experts complain that Tehran was probably able to produce at least one nuclear weapon in a few days and different nuclear heads.
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Although nuclear enrichment is a process that is necessary for countries that also depend on nuclear energy, the nuclear energy consumption of Iran is less than one percent of the energy consumption of the nation.
The US has suggested that, in view of the low amounts of nuclear energy on which Iran trusts, it should participate in a consortium that could possibly involve countries such as the VAE and Saudi Arabia because of the enriched uranium needs for civil nuclear use.
But Iran repeatedly rejected this proposal, with the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who also refers to the capacities of Tehran as a source of national pride last month.
“The number of countries in the world that has reached a full nuclear fuel cycle is perhaps less than the number of fingers on a person’s two hands,” Khamenei said at the beginning of June. “We can produce nuclear fuel from the mine and all the way to the power plant.”
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But Iran is also confronted with enormous international sanctions and even greater arms restrictions if the at the end of August would not reach a nuclear agreement – although it is unclear whether that agreement should contain the US or only European countries, including France, Germany and the UK, also called the E3.
Iranian officials will not only meet his best allies and most important opponents in the West, Russia and China on Tuesday, but Tehran will also hold conversations with E3 officials on Friday.
Washington and Tehran have to resume the conversations after the American strikes last month.
