Iranian Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi, heart, attends a convention titled “Worldwide Legislation Beneath Assault: Aggression and Self-Protection,” in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025.
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s overseas minister on Sunday stated that Tehran is now not enriching uranium at any website within the nation.
Answering a query from an Related Press journalist visiting Iran, Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi provided probably the most direct response but from the Iranian authorities relating to its nuclear program following Israel and america’ bombing its enrichment websites in June.
“There isn’t any undeclared nuclear enrichment in Iran. All of our amenities are below the safeguards and monitoring” of the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company, Araghchi stated. “There isn’t any enrichment proper now as a result of our amenities — our enrichment amenities — have been attacked.”
Requested what it could take for Iran to proceed negotiations with the U.S. and others, Araghchi stated that Iran’s message on its nuclear program stays “clear.”
“Iran’s proper for enrichment, for peaceable use of nuclear expertise, together with enrichment, is simple,” the overseas minister continued. “We have now this proper and we proceed to train that and we hope that the worldwide neighborhood, together with america, acknowledge our rights and perceive that that is an inalienable proper of Iran and we might by no means hand over our rights.”
Iran’s authorities issued a three-day visa for the AP reporter to attend a summit alongside different journalists from main British shops and different media.
Iran’s Institute for Political and Worldwide Research, affiliated with the nation’s Overseas Ministry, hosted the summit. Titled “Worldwide Legislation Beneath Assault: Aggression and Self-Protection,” the convention included papers by Iranian political analysts providing Tehran’s view of the 12-day conflict in June, many seizing on feedback from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz praising Israel for having executed the “soiled work” in launching its assault.
“Iran’s defensive response was exceptional, inspiring, historic and above all, pure,” wrote Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour, a global relations professor. “How can one presumably examine Israel’s soiled deeds to the noble and clear actions of the Iranian nation?”
Pictures of youngsters killed by Israel in the course of the conflict lined the walkway exterior the summit, held contained in the Martyr Basic Qassem Soleimani Constructing, named for the Revolutionary Guard expeditionary chief killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2020.
However Iran finds itself in a tough second after the conflict. Israel decimated the nation’s air protection methods, doubtlessly leaving the door open to additional airstrikes as tensions stay excessive over Tehran’s nuclear program. In the meantime, financial pressures and societal change continues to problem Iran’s Shiite theocracy, which up to now has held off on making choices on whether or not to implement its obligatory hijab legal guidelines or increase the worth of government-subsidized gasoline, each of which have sparked nationwide protests prior to now.
