Iranian International Minister Abbas Araghchi, middle, attends a convention titled “International Law Under Assault: Aggression and Self-Defense,” in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025.
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s international minister on Sunday mentioned that Tehran is not enriching uranium at any web site within the nation.
Answering a query from an Related Press journalist visiting Iran, International Minister Abbas Araghchi supplied essentially the most direct response but from the Iranian authorities relating to its nuclear program following Israel and the USA’ bombing its enrichment websites in June.
“There is no undeclared nuclear enrichment in Iran. All of our facilities are under the safeguards and monitoring” of the Worldwide Atomic Power Company, Araghchi mentioned. “There is no enrichment right now because our facilities — our enrichment facilities — have been attacked.”
Requested what it will take for Iran to proceed negotiations with the U.S. and others, Araghchi mentioned that Iran’s message on its nuclear program stays “clear.”
“Iran’s right for enrichment, for peaceful use of nuclear technology, including enrichment, is undeniable,” the international minister continued. “We have this right and we continue to exercise that and we hope that the international community, including the United States, recognize our rights and understand that this is an inalienable right of Iran and we would never give up our rights.”
Iran’s authorities issued a three-day visa for the AP reporter to attend a summit alongside different journalists from main British retailers and different media.
Iran’s Institute for Political and Worldwide Research, affiliated with the nation’s International Ministry, hosted the summit. Titled “International Law Under Assault: Aggression and Self-Defense,” 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 finished the “dirty work” in launching its assault.
“Iran’s defensive response was remarkable, inspiring, historic and above all, pure,” wrote Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour, a world relations professor. “How can one possibly compare Israel’s dirty deeds to the noble and clean actions of the Iranian nation?”
Photographs of youngsters killed by Israel in the course of the conflict lined the walkway exterior the summit, held contained in the Martyr Normal 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 programs, probably 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 thus far has held off on making choices on whether or not to implement its necessary hijab legal guidelines or increase the value of government-subsidized gasoline, each of which have sparked nationwide protests up to now.
