{"id":1866,"date":"2025-07-22T07:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/irans-fm-says-nuclear-enrichment-will-continue-but-open-to-talks\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T07:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:49:30","slug":"irans-fm-says-nuclear-enrichment-will-continue-but-open-to-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/irans-fm-says-nuclear-enrichment-will-continue-but-open-to-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s FM says nuclear enrichment will continue, but open to talks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says continuing enrichment is a matter of \u2018national pride\u2019 after US and Israeli attacks caused \u2018serious\u2019 damage.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi has said that Tehran cannot give up on its uranium enrichment programme, which was severely damaged by waves of US and Israeli air strikes last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is now stopped because, yes, damages are serious and severe, but obviously, we cannot give up our enrichment because it is an achievement of our own scientists, and now, more than that, it is a question of national pride,\u201d Araghchi told the US broadcaster Fox News in an interview aired on Monday.<\/p>\n

Araghchi said at the beginning of the interview that Iran is \u201copen to talks\u201d with the United States, but that they would not be direct talks \u201cfor the time being\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they [the US] are coming for a win-win solution, I am ready to engage with them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are ready to do any confidence-building measure needed to prove that Iran\u2019s nuclear programme is peaceful and would remain peaceful forever, and Iran would never go for nuclear weapons, and in return, we expect them to lift their sanctions<\/a>,\u201d the foreign minister added.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, my message to the United States is that let\u2019s go for a negotiated solution for Iran\u2019s nuclear programme.\u201d<\/p>\n

Araghchi\u2019s comments were part of a 16-minute interview aired on Fox News, a broadcaster known to be closely watched by US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a negotiated solution for our nuclear programme. We have done it once in the past. We are ready to do it once again,\u201d Araghchi said.<\/p>\n

Tehran and Washington had been holding talks on the nuclear programme earlier this year, seven years after Trump pulled the US out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action<\/a> (JCPOA), which Tehran signed with several world powers in 2015. Under the pact, Iran opened the country\u2019s nuclear sites to comprehensive international inspection in return for the lifting of sanctions.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s decision to pull the US out of the deal came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of pursuing a \u201csecret nuclear programme<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n

Iran has long maintained that its nuclear enrichment programme is strictly for civilian purposes.<\/p>\n

The US and Iran engaged in talks as recently as May to reach a new deal, but those negotiations broke down when Israel launched surprise bombing raids across Iran on June 13, targeting military and nuclear sites.<\/p>\n

More than 900 people were killed in Iran, and at least 28 people were killed in Israel before a ceasefire took hold on June 24<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The US also joined Israel in attacking Iranian nuclear facilities, with the Pentagon later claiming it had set back<\/a> the country\u2019s nuclear programme by one to two years.<\/p>\n

Araghchi said on Monday that Iran\u2019s Atomic Energy Organisation is still evaluating how the attacks had affected Iran\u2019s enriched material, adding that they will \u201csoon inform\u201d the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of its findings.<\/p>\n

He said any request for the IAEA to send inspectors would be \u201ccarefully considered\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not stopped our cooperation with the agency,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n

IAEA inspectors left Iran after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a law<\/a> suspending cooperation with the IAEA earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Tehran had sharply criticised the IAEA and its chief, Rafael Grossi, over a June 12 resolution passed by the IAEA board accusing Tehran of non-compliance with its nuclear obligations.<\/p>\n

Iranian officials said the resolution was among the \u201cexcuses\u201d that Israel used as a pretext to launch its attacks, which began on June 13 and lasted for 12 days.<\/p>\n

Speaking to journalists earlier on Monday, Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for the United Nations secretary-general, said that the UN welcomed renewed \u201cdialogue between the Europeans and the Iranians\u201d, referring to talks set to take place<\/a> between Iran, France, Germany and the United Kingdom in Turkiye on Friday.<\/p>\n

The three European parties to the former JCPOA agreement have said that Tehran\u2019s failure to resume negotiations would lead to international sanctions being reimposed on Iran.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Source: <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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