Foreign Minister admits serious damage to sites

Iran’s Foreign Minister admitted that “excessive and serious” damage to the country’s nuclear sites in the recent American and Israeli attacks were caused.

Abbas Araghchi told a state station on Thursday night, the Iran’s atomic energy organization is carrying out an evaluation of the damage.

But, only a few hours before, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, said the strikes did not interrupt the country’s nuclear program. Khamenei was responding to the statement of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, that the bombs had “destroyed” three nuclear sites.

Khamenei said that US attacks had not been able to “achieve anything significant.”

The supreme leader, who has hidden since the war with Israel on June 13, insisted that Trump had “exaggerated” the impact of the bombs and declared the victory over the United States and Israel.

But Araghchi’s comments create a different impression.

The Foreign Minister also said there were no plans to resume nuclear conversations with the United States. They will cancel a sixth scheduled round of conversations when Israel began their attacks.

“I would like to say clearly that no agreement, agreement or conversation has been made to start new negotiations,” he said.

He added that the Government was examining what was in the “interest of the Iranian people”, saying that its approach to diplomacy will take a “new form.”

He did not explain what he meant.

In an attempt to return Iran to the negotiating table, the Trump administration has discussed the possibility of helping Iran access to $ 30 billion to build a nuclear program of civil energy producer, relieve sanctions and release billions of dollars in restricted Iranian funds, CNN has reported, CNN reported.

But developments in Iran could obstruct such movement.

On Wednesday, Iran’s Parliament approved a bill to stop cooperation with the World Nuclear Control Agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA). If it is implemented, it would mean that Iran is no longer committed to allowing nuclear inspectors to enter their sites.

Israel has said that his offensive against Iran was necessary to frustrate what he states that they are Iranian plans to develop nuclear weapons.

Iran has always insisted that its nuclear program is only destined for civil purposes.

The United States was directly involved in the conflict last weekend, hitting the facilities in Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, before Trump tried to quickly mediate a high fire between Israel and Iran.

The Secretary of Defense of the United States, Pete Hegseth, said that intelligence gathered by the United States and Israel indicated that the attacks “significantly damaged the nuclear program, delaying for years.”

A preliminary evaluation of filtered pentagon He minimized the importance of the damage and said that US attacks only resumed Iran’s nuclear program in a few months. The escape has been dismissed by the administration.

Iran’s Ministry of Health said that 610 people were killed during the 12 days of Israel’s air attacks, while Israeli authorities said 28 were killed in Israel.