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Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has said his state is prepared for immoderate warfare Israel mightiness wage against it, adding helium was not optimistic astir the ceasefire betwixt the countries, portion confirming Tehran is committed to continuing its atomic programme for peaceful purposes.
Pezeshkian made the comments successful an exclusive interrogation with Al Jazeera aired connected Wednesday, 1 of his archetypal since the extremity of the 12-day conflict with Israel past month, successful which the United States intervened connected Israel’s behalf, launching strikes connected Iran’s atomic facilities.
The comments travel arsenic Western nations accidental they are seeking a solution to Iran’s ongoing atomic ambitions successful the aftermath of the conflict, amid reports that strikes connected its atomic facilities were little damaging than claimed by Washington.
“We are afloat prepared for immoderate caller Israeli subject move, and our equipped forces are acceptable to onslaught heavy wrong Israel again,” Pezeshkian told Al Jazeera.
Iran was not relying connected the ceasefire that ended the 12-day warfare to hold, helium said.
“We are not precise optimistic astir it,” said Pezeshkian.
“That is wherefore we person prepared ourselves for immoderate imaginable script and immoderate imaginable response. Israel has harmed us, and we person besides harmed it. It has dealt america almighty blows, and we person struck it hard successful its depths, but it is concealing its losses.”
He added that Israel’s strikes, which assassinated starring subject figures and atomic scientists, and damaged atomic facilities, had sought to “eliminate” Iran’s hierarchy, “but it has wholly failed to bash so”.
More than 900 radical were killed successful Iran, ample numbers of them civilians, and astatine slightest 28 radical were killed successful Israel earlier a ceasefire took clasp connected June 24.
Enrichment programme volition continue
Pezeshkian said Iran would proceed its uranium enrichment programme contempt planetary opposition, saying the improvement of its atomic abilities would beryllium carried retired “within the model of planetary laws”.
“[US President Donald] Trump says that Iran should not person a atomic limb and we judge this due to the fact that we cull atomic weapons and this is our political, religious, humanitarian and strategical position,” helium said.
“We judge successful diplomacy, truthful immoderate aboriginal negotiations indispensable beryllium according to a win-win logic, and we volition not judge threats and dictates.”
He said the assertion from Trump “that our atomic programme is implicit is conscionable an illusion”.
“Our atomic capabilities are successful the minds of our scientists and not successful the facilities,” helium said.
Pezeshkian’s comments echoed earlier remarks by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who said successful an interrogation with US broadcaster Fox News aired Monday that Tehran would ne'er wantonness its uranium enrichment programme, but was unfastened to a negotiated solution to its atomic ambitions, successful which it would warrant that the programme was for peaceful purposes successful effect for the lifting of sanctions.
Israel sought to ‘overthrow’ leadership
Pezeshkian besides addressed an attempt by Israel to assassinate him astatine a gathering of the Supreme National Security Council successful Tehran connected June 15, which was reported to person near him with insignificant injuries.
Asked astir the assassination attempt, helium said it had been portion of a program by Israeli commanders to people Iran’s governmental enactment successful the aftermath of its assassination of elder subject figures, successful a bid “to enactment the state into chaos successful bid to overthrow it completely”.
But the program had failed, helium said.
He besides stressed that Tehran’s strikes connected Qatar’s Al Udeid basal successful the aftermath of US attacks connected Iranian atomic facilities had not been an onslaught connected Qatar and its people.
“We bash not adjacent person a thought oregon imaginativeness that determination should beryllium hostility oregon rivalry betwixt america and the authorities of Qatar,” helium said, adding that helium had called Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani connected the time of the strikes to explicate his position.
“I accidental intelligibly and honestly that we did not onslaught the State of Qatar, but we attacked a basal for America that bombed our state portion each our intentions towards Qatar and its radical are bully and positive.”
Talks with European powers to resume
Araghchi said connected Monday that Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization is inactive evaluating however the attacks past period had affected Iran’s enriched material, saying Tehran would soon pass the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of its findings.
He said Iran had not stopped practice with the IAEA, adding that immoderate petition for the IAEA to nonstop inspectors backmost to Iran would beryllium “carefully considered”.
IAEA inspectors near Iran earlier this period aft Pezeshkian signed a law suspending practice with the agency.
Meanwhile, talks are acceptable to instrumentality place betwixt Iran, France, Germany and the UK successful Turkiye connected Friday.
The 3 European parties to the erstwhile Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which Tehran signed with respective satellite powers successful 2015 earlier the US pulled retired successful 2018, person said Tehran’s nonaccomplishment to resume negotiations would pb to planetary sanctions being reimposed connected it.
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