Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has mentioned his nation is ready for any warfare Israel would possibly wage towards it, including he was not optimistic concerning the ceasefire between the international locations, whereas confirming Tehran is dedicated to persevering with its nuclear programme for peaceable functions.
Pezeshkian made the feedback in an unique interview with Al Jazeera aired on Wednesday, one among his first for the reason that finish of the 12-day conflict with Israel final month, during which the US intervened on Israel’s behalf, launching strikes on Iran’s nuclear amenities.
The feedback come as Western nations say they’re in search of an answer to Iran’s ongoing nuclear ambitions within the wake of the battle, amid reports that strikes on its nuclear amenities have been much less damaging than claimed by Washington.
“We’re totally ready for any new Israeli army transfer, and our armed forces are able to strike deep inside Israel once more,” Pezeshkian instructed Al Jazeera.
Iran was not counting on the ceasefire that ended the 12-day warfare to carry, he mentioned.
“We aren’t very optimistic about it,” mentioned Pezeshkian.
“That’s the reason we now have ready ourselves for any potential situation and any potential response. Israel has harmed us, and we now have additionally harmed it. It has dealt us highly effective blows, and we now have struck it exhausting in its depths, however it’s concealing its losses.”
He added that Israel’s strikes, which assassinated main army figures and nuclear scientists, and broken nuclear amenities, had sought to “eradicate” Iran’s hierarchy, “however it has fully failed to take action”.
Greater than 900 folks have been killed in Iran, giant numbers of them civilians, and not less than 28 folks have been killed in Israel earlier than a ceasefire took hold on June 24.
Enrichment programme will proceed
Pezeshkian mentioned Iran would proceed its uranium enrichment programme regardless of worldwide opposition, saying the event of its nuclear talents could be carried out “throughout the framework of worldwide legal guidelines”.
“[US President Donald] Trump says that Iran mustn’t have a nuclear weapon and we settle for this as a result of we reject nuclear weapons and that is our political, non secular, humanitarian and strategic place,” he mentioned.
“We consider in diplomacy, so any future negotiations should be in response to a win-win logic, and we won’t settle for threats and dictates.”
He mentioned the declare from Trump “that our nuclear programme is over is simply an phantasm”.
“Our nuclear capabilities are within the minds of our scientists and never within the amenities,” he mentioned.
Pezeshkian’s feedback echoed earlier remarks by Iranian International Minister Abbas Araghchi, who said in an interview with US broadcaster Fox Information aired Monday that Tehran would by no means abandon its uranium enrichment programme, however was open to a negotiated resolution to its nuclear ambitions, during which it could assure that the programme was for peaceable functions in response for the lifting of sanctions.
Israel sought to ‘overthrow’ management
Pezeshkian additionally addressed an attempt by Israel to assassinate him at a gathering of the Supreme Nationwide Safety Council in Tehran on June 15, which was reported to have left him with minor accidents.
Requested concerning the assassination try, he mentioned it had been a part of a plan by Israeli commanders to focus on Iran’s political management within the wake of its assassination of senior army figures, in a bid “to place the nation into chaos in an effort to overthrow it fully”.
However the plan had failed, he mentioned.
He additionally harassed that Tehran’s strikes on Qatar’s Al Udeid base within the wake of US assaults on Iranian nuclear amenities had not been an assault on Qatar and its folks.
“We don’t also have a thought or creativeness that there needs to be hostility or rivalry between us and the state of Qatar,” he mentioned, including that he had called Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on the day of the strikes to clarify his place.
“I say clearly and truthfully that we didn’t assault the State of Qatar, however we attacked a base for America that bombed our nation whereas all our intentions in the direction of Qatar and its individuals are good and constructive.”
Talks with European powers to renew
Araghchi mentioned on Monday that Iran’s Atomic Vitality Group continues to be evaluating how the assaults final month had affected Iran’s enriched materials, saying Tehran would quickly inform the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (IAEA) of its findings.
He mentioned Iran had not stopped cooperation with the IAEA, including that any request for the IAEA to ship inspectors again to Iran could be “fastidiously thought of”.
IAEA inspectors left Iran earlier this month after Pezeshkian signed a law suspending cooperation with the company.
In the meantime, talks are set to take place between Iran, France, Germany and the UK in Turkiye on Friday.
The three European events to the previous Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which Tehran signed with a number of world powers in 2015 earlier than the US pulled out in 2018, have mentioned Tehran’s failure to renew negotiations would result in worldwide sanctions being reimposed on it.