Iranian Foreign Minister’s doubts with us will be quickly restored, but said “the door to diplomacy will never be closed violently”
President Trump recently said Diplomatic talks with Iran can start over This week, although the White House noted that there were no formal arrangements for talks. back US air strikes on some Iranian nuclear facilitiesjust a few days later Ceasefire Ending what Mr. Trump said 12-day war between Iran and Israelthe Iranian foreign minister seems not sure of quickly resuming diplomacy.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told CBS News through a translation.
“In order for us to decide to rejoin, we will first make sure the U.S. will not resume the military attacks given to us during the negotiations,” Araghchi said in an interview with the U.S. media outlets inside Iran since the explosion. “And I think we still need more time for all of these considerations.”
But Aragic also insisted: “The door of diplomacy will never hit.”
Mr Trump said in a televised speech after the U.S. strike on June 21 that Iran for The nuclear facilities in Isfahan and Natanz have been “completely and completely eliminated”. “The initial combat damage assessment showed that all three sites suffered extremely severe losses and damage,” General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a press conference.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, head of the United Nations Nuclear Monitoring Agency, Tell CBS News The U.S. strike caused “severe damage, but it’s not total damage.” Grossi said Iran will likely start enriching uranium again within a few months.
“People cannot enrich by bombing technology and science,” said Araghchi. “If we were willing and the will exist was to make progress in this industry again, we would be able to quickly repair the losses and make up for the time it lost.”
Asked if Iran intends to continue to enrich uranium, Aragic said the country’s “peaceful nuclear program has become national pride and glory. We have also experienced 12 days of imposing war, so people don’t retreat easily.”
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after 12 days of missile exchange between Iran and Israel Announce victorywrote on social media: “I won the victory of the fallacy Zionist regime against me” and claimed that the Israeli government was “in fact knocked down and overwhelmed by the blow of the Islamic Republic”.
Mr. Trump responded on social media, calling Khamenei’s declaration a lie, saying Iran was “eliminated” and claiming that he prevented the assassination of the supreme leader by the U.S. and Israeli forces.
Mr. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet at the White House next Monday.
Mr. Trump also said he could order a strike against Iran again if a certain level of uranium is restored. Araghchi questioned the legitimacy of such an action and said Iran was ready for more attacks.
“We have proved and demonstrated in this 12-day war of imposing war, and we will continue to do so if any aggression is launched against us,” he said.
Caroline Linton and Tucker Reals contributed to the report.
