The words of the Iranian Foreign Minister are in contradiction with those held by the Iranian Supreme Guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who put the impact of strikes carried out at dawn by the United States on Sunday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described Thursday, June 26 “Important” The damage caused to nuclear installations of his country by the 12 -day war with Israel, adding that Tehran had started to assess the impact of the conflict. “Experts of the organization of atomic energy (Iranian) currently carry out a detailed evaluation of the damage ”he said. “These damage is important” and at the same time give rise to “Expert studies and political decisions”he added. He said that “The discussion to require damage” Now was in a good place in the government’s agenda.
These words are in contradiction with those held the same day by the Iranian supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who put the impact of strikes carried out at dawn on Sunday in the United States, in its first public appearance since the end of the war on Tuesday. The United States “Did not win anything from this war”he said, adding that “The Islamic Republic had won and, in retaliation, inflicted a scathing slap in the face of America”. He estimated that the American president had “exaggerated” the impact of strikes, according to him “Not at all important”.
“Hard blow”
In fact, Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the air strikes launched by the United States on Sunday had completely destroyed the main Iranian nuclear installations, which reports cited by several American media. The American president even said that the Iranian nuclear program had been delayed from “Several decades” by these bombings. For the Israeli army spokesman, the general of Brigadier Effie Defrin, the conflict carried a “Hard blow” on the Tehran nuclear program but it is “Still early to assess the results of the operation”.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA) also deemed impossible at this stage to assess the damage and requested access to the sites. The UN agency “Lost visibility (on enriched uranium stocks) From the moment that hostilities have started “said its managing director on Wednesday, Rafael Grossi. While the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA) has requested access to Iranian sites to carry out its own evaluation of damage, Araghchi said that its government was initiated by the adoption of a law suspending cooperation with this UN agency. “There is no doubt about the application of this law” et “Now our relationship and cooperation with the agency will take another form”he said. After a vote on Wednesday of the Iranian Parliament on Wednesday, the Guardian Council, in charge of examining the legislation in Iran, approved the law on Thursday, which must be sent to the presidency for final ratification.
“Legitimate rights”
Tehran, who reaffirmed his “Legitimate rights” To develop a civil nuclear program and denies wanting to acquire the atomic weapon, said it was ready to resume discussions with Washington on an agreement framing its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions striking its economy. A previous agreement concluded between Iran and the major powers in 2015 in order to supervise Iran’s nuclear program had become a deciduous after the unilateral withdrawal of the United States in 2018, under the first mandate of Donald Trump. A sixth cycle of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, scheduled for June 15 via the mediation of the Sultanate of Oman, was canceled due to the war launched two days earlier by the Israeli attack on Iran.
Israel had launched a massive air attack on Iran on June 13, with the aim of preventing it from having nuclear weapons. According to an official Iranian assessment, the Israeli strikes killed at least 627 civilians and made more than 4,870 injured. Iran retaliated with missile and drone fire, which killed 28 people in Israel.
