Iran to Resume Nuclear Talks with US if it gets Guarantees of no Further Attacks
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Tehran: Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday that he would agree to resume nuclear talks with the United States if he received assurances that there would be no further attacks against his country.
In a speech to foreign diplomats in Tehran, Foreign Minister Araghchi said Iran has always been ready for talks on its nuclear program and will be ready in the future. “But if talks resume, they must be assured that this trend will not lead to war,” he said.
Referring to the 12-day Israeli bombing of Iran’s nuclear and military sites and the US attack on June 22, he said, “If the US and others want to resume talks with Iran, they must first have firm guarantees that such actions will not be repeated. The attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities have made it more difficult and complicated to achieve a negotiated solution.”
Iran suspended cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog (IAEA) after the attack. IAEA inspectors have since withdrawn.
Araghchi said that, in accordance with the law, the country will respond to the agency’s requests for assistance “on a case-by-case basis, based on Iran’s interests.”
He also said that any inspections by the agency must be based on Iran’s “security” concerns as well as the safety of the inspectors.
“The risk of the spread of radioactive elements left over from the war and the explosion of explosive devices at the attacked nuclear facilities is serious,” Foreign Minister Araghchi said.
He also reiterated Iran’s insistence that it must continue uranium enrichment on its soil. US President Donald Trump has insisted that this cannot happen.
Israel claims that Tehran has access to nuclear weapons. US intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last estimated that Iran had an organized nuclear weapons program in 2003.
However, Tehran had been enriching uranium to 60 percent. That is a shortfall and a technical step away from the weapons-grade level of 90 percent.
In an interview published on Monday, Iranian President Masoud Peshmerga said that the US airstrikes had damaged his country’s nuclear facilities so badly that Iranian officials had not yet been able to gain access to survey the damage.
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