Iran acknowledges that its nuclear facilities have been “severely damaged” by US bombings, but it does not intend to renounce the enrichment of uranium, said its Minister of Foreign Affairs on Monday 21, before the conversations scheduled for Friday, July 25 in Istanbul with France, the United Kingdom and Germany.
“It was arrested because, yes, the damage is serious and serious. But it is obvious that we cannot give up enrichment, because it is a realization of our own scientists,” said Abbas Araghchi in the Bret Baier program in the American Fox News Channel.
“It is a matter of national pride,” he said, emphasizing that any future Iranian nuclear agreement will have to contain the right to enrichment.
President Donald Trump immediately reiterated his threat to bombard Iran again if he resumed his enrichment program. “Abbas Araghchi, about Iranian nuclear sites:” The damage is very serious, they are destroyed. “Of course they are, as I said, and we will start again, if necessary!”, He wrote on his social network.
Tehran “open” to indirect discussions
When he was asked to know if the enriched uranium could have been saved despite the bombings, Minister Iraní replied that he had “detailed information” about this, but that the Iranian atomic agency strives “to evaluate what happened exactly with our nuclear team, our enriched team.”
Abbas Araghchi said he was “open” to indirect discussions with Washington, the two countries had several exchanges before the US attacks on June 22 aimed at nuclear sites, but excluded direct discussions “at the moment.”
He points out that Iran is ready to “take confidence measures to demonstrate that its nuclear program is peaceful” in exchange for lifting US sanctions.
In support of the 12 -day offensive of Israel against Iran, the United States has bombarded the enrichment of Uranium of Fordo, south of Tehran and nuclear facilities in Ispahan and Natanz (center) on June 22.
Europe was responsible for the failure of the Vienna agreement
Meanwhile, Iran said that he has taken the European countries responsible for the failure of the 2015 agreement, accusing them on Monday of not having maintained their commitments. Tehran, several Western powers, China and Russia had reached this agreement that provided significant restrictions to the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for a progressive survey of UN sanctions.
But in 2018, the United States withdrew unilaterally from this text that a long time ago and deposited its sanctions during Donald Trump’s first mandate (2017-2021).
Paris, London and Berlin had secured their attachment to the agreement, saying that I wanted to continue trade with Iran. The UN sanctions and the Europeans were not restored.
But the system provided by European countries to compensate for the return of US sanctions has fought to materialize and many Western companies have been forced to leave Iran, faced with strong inflation and an economic crisis.
“European parties have been defective and negligent in the implementation” of the nuclear agreement, said Iranian diplomacy spokesman Esmaïl Baghaï.
This Monday, the Iranian minister also said that the missile program continued. “We have a good amount of missiles to defend ourselves,” he said. Israeli strikes had signed up for missile sites.
Source: BFM TV
