Nuclear dispute: Iran’s Foreign Minister: Can’t give up uranium enrichment

According to Foreign Minister Abbas Araghtschi, Iran will not give up the enrichment of uranium, but is ready for negotiations. One cannot do without the uranium enrichment “because it is an achievement of our own scientists, and even more because it is a question of national pride,” Araghtschi told the US broadcaster Fox News. However, his country is ready for negotiations “to” ensure that our enrichment only serves peaceful purposes “.

After the ceasefire between Israel and Iran came into force, Iran’s political and military leadership had recently rejected negotiations with the West. As a reason, a lack of trust was mentioned after Israel had attacked Iran shortly before a new round of negotiations with the United States. One is ready to “take every confidence -building measure that is necessary to prove that the Iranian nuclear program is peaceful and will remain peaceful forever,” said Araghtschi. In return, Iran expects the sanctions to be lifted.

The Foreign Minister confirmed that the country’s nuclear facilities were “badly damaged” by the US bombs last month. The exact extent of the damage is currently being examined by the national atomic energy organization. US President Donald Trump then wrote on his Truth Social platform that the United States would attack Iran’s nuclear facilities again, “if necessary”. When asked what was already enriched with the uranium that was already enriched with the attacks of the United States and Israel, Araghtschi also referred to Iran’s nuclear energy organization. This attempts to evaluate what exactly happened to the enriched nuclear material.

The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA will soon be informed, the Foreign Minister said. Iran had not stopped cooperation with the IAEA. In the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program, new negotiations between Iran and the so-called E3 countries Germany, France and Great Britain are planned for this week. The meeting should take place on Friday in Istanbul at the level of deputy foreign ministers, said foreign office spokesman Ismail Baghai, according to the newspaper “Etemad”.

According to experts, the Istanbul meeting does not expect significant progress in the nuclear dispute. However, Europeans can put pressure on the Iranian government. In mid -October, the Viennese nuclear agreement – even if it is practically not implemented – runs formally. Until then, the E3 countries could apply for the reintroduction of previous sanctions to the UN Security Council as a co-signer of the 2015 agreement.