The Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi admitted in an interview on the state of TV that the US strikes caused serious damage to Tehran’s nuclear facilities, despite the insistence of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that there was minimal impact.
Araghchi said in the interview that “the level of damage is high and it is serious damage,” said the Associated Press.
Post-Strike reviews have shown that the nuclear locations of Iran have suffered damage at both the US and the Israeli attacks. All three countries – Iran, Israel and the US – have drawn similar conclusions about the extent of the damage, despite what a leaked Intel report has indicated.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is contradictory with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei about the extent of damage caused by US strikes about the nuclear facilities of the country. (Associated Press)
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The only leader who apparently does not agree with the reviews is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said that “the Americans were unable to achieve something important in their attack on nuclear facilities,” said reports.
Khamenei seems to be more focused on projecting in force than reflecting reality. He described Iran’s attack on Al-Euweid, the American airbase in Qatar, as a “heavy blow to the face of the US” While President Donald Trump turned it as a “very weak reaction” and thanked Iran for giving the US “early notification”.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director -General Rafael Grossi said in a statement On Tuesday, the office “had seen extensive damage at various nuclear locations in Iran, including the uranium conversion and enrichment facilities.”
This satellite photo by Planet Labs PBC shows the underground nuclear enrichment site of Iran in Fordo after American air strikes on the facility, on Sunday 22 June 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
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In addition to discussing the damage caused at Iran’s nuclear locations, Araghchi also discussed the possibility of resuming conversations with the US, he said that the American strikes made the “more complicated and more difficult” for Iran to get to the table, but the possibility could not resume that negotiations could resume.
Nuclear conversations with the US may not be completely off the table for Iran after last week’s strikes – even if Tehran is not interested in re -introducing negotiations.
The possibility of negotiations was already in question prior to Operation Midnight Hammer, because Tehran considered the US as “complicit” in the operation of Israel Rising Lion, According to ReutersWith reference to the Iranian UN ambassador Ali Bahreini.
American vice president JD Vance, from the left, US President Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, US State Secretary, and Pete Hegseeth, American defense minister, during a speech to the nation in the East Chamber of the White House, DC, US, on Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Carlos Barria/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty images)
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Trump expressed optimism in the capacity of the US on Wednesday to resume nuclear conversations with Iran.
“We are going to talk to them next week, with Iran. We can sign an agreement, I don’t know. I don’t think I think it is necessary. I mean, they have had a war. They fought. Now they go back to their world. I don’t care if I have an agreement or not. [program]. But we destroyed the nuclear, “said Trump.
Despite Trump’s statement, there is still no clear indications that the countries have plans to meet each other in the near future.
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The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
