The minister further noted that Saudi Arabia has completed the essential administrative preparations to rescind the Small Quantities Protocol in cooperation with the IAEA and has fully implemented the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement, as of early 2025.
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Iran‘s Pezeshkian says Iran does not seek war, but Israel, US seek to ‚divide, destroy Iran‘
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that Iran does not seek war but if Israel and the United States attacked, Iran will stand against them „forcefully“.
„America and Israel seek to divide and destroy Iran, but no Iranian wants Iran to be divided“, he said in a pre-recorded TV interview.
Europe just made war with Iran more likely
France, Germany, and the UK (E3) have announced they will trigger snapback sanctions on Iran at the United Nations. This will launch a 30-day process that will likely culminate in the full reinstatement of all U.N. sanctions lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. The move will carry four major consequences.
First, the U.N. Security Council will formally adopt the demand — pushed by Israel — that Iran cease all uranium enrichment. Israel designed this demand to sabotage nuclear diplomacy and edge the conflict toward war….
Tucker Carlson Interviews President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian
7:04 Is Iran Open to Diplomacy?
Israel must not be allowed to attack Iran again, ignite new war: President Pezeshkian
“We have no problem with negotiation. But the atrocities Israel has committed in the region and against our country, and its war crimes…have caused a crisis,” he said.
The president said that returning to the negotiating table has a prerequisite, which is based on a confidence-building attitude.
“Israel must not be allowed to attack again right in the middle of talks and ignite a new war,” Pezeshkian stated.
The Israeli regime launched a blatant and unprovoked act of aggression against Iran on June 13, assassinating many high-ranking military commanders and nuclear scientists in addition to civilians.
On June 22, the United States officially joined the war against Iran by launching attacks on three nuclear facilities in the country in violation of the United Nations Charter and the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Tucker Carlson interviewt Irans Präsident Masoud Pezeshkian
Unredigiertes, ins Deutsche übersetztes Transkript:
Tucker [00:00:00] Herr Präsident, vielen Dank, dass Sie sich Zeit genommen haben. Es gibt eine Pause oder zumindest scheint es eine Pause im Krieg zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und dem Iran zu geben. Wie wird das Ihrer Meinung nach enden? Wie würden Sie sich ein Ende wünschen?
Masoud Pezeshkian [00:00:13] Wir waren die Initiatoren des Krieges. Wir haben diesen Krieg nicht begonnen und wir wollen auf keinen Fall, dass er weitergeht. Von Anfang an war es das Motto meiner Regierung, an dem ich mich immer gehalten habe, die nationale Einheit im Land zu fördern und auch den Frieden und die Ruhe sowie die Freundschaft mit den Nachbarländern und dem Rest der Welt zu stärken.
Tucker [00:00:45] Der amerikanische Präsident Donald Trump hat gesagt, dass die Vereinigten Staaten Ihre Anreicherungsanlagen bombardiert haben, weil die iranische Regierung sich geweigert hat, ihr Atomprogramm aufzugeben, und dass es keinen Frieden geben kann, solange der Iran dieses Atomprogramm nicht aufgibt. Wären Sie bereit, das Atomprogramm im Austausch für Frieden aufzugeben?
Masoud Pezeshkian [00:01:08] Ich möchte Ihnen erzählen, was passiert ist: Seit 1984 hat Netanjahu diese falsche Mentalität geschaffen, dass der Iran eine Atombombe anstrebt, und er hat unterstellt, dass der Iran in der Vergangenheit versucht hat, eine Atombombe zu entwickeln, und er hat dies in den Köpfen aller US-Präsidenten seitdem verankert und sie davon überzeugt, dass wir eine Atombombe haben wollen. Aber die Wahrheit ist, dass… in die Köpfe aller US-Präsidenten seitdem, um sie glauben zu machen, dass wir eine Atombombe haben wollen. Aber die Wahrheit ist, dass… Wir haben nie nach einer Atombombe gestrebt, weder in der Vergangenheit, noch in der Gegenwart oder in der Zukunft, weil dies falsch ist und im Widerspruch zu dem religiösen Dekret oder der Fatwa steht, die von seiner Eminenz, dem Obersten Führer der Islamischen Republik Iran, erlassen wurde. Es ist uns also religiös verboten, eine Atombombe anzustreben, und dies wurde dank unserer Zusammenarbeit mit der IAEO immer bestätigt, da sie immer vor Ort war, um dies zu überprüfen. Und um zu belegen, dass wir nie eine Atombombe wollten. Leider wurde diese Zusammenarbeit durch die rechtswidrigen Angriffe auf unsere Atomanlagen gestört.
Forget ‚total obliteration‘ — experts say Iran and U.S. need to negotiate
Iran has limited its interaction with IAEA inspectors for several years, although they were still allowed to monitor declared nuclear sites. On Wednesday, Iran‘s parliament recommended a bill that effectively suspended cooperation with the agency. On Thursday, the country‘s Guardian Council fully approved it.
Iran has made clear that the suspension does not mean it will pull out of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but it will prevent IAEA inspections of Iran‘s bombed nuclear facilities.
„The Iranian regime has invested decades in its nuclear program and also an unparalleled amount of resources,“ says Stroul, of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. „So to think that after less than two weeks, they are just going to take a knee and abandon their entire nuclear ambitions is likely a short sighted approach.“
Iran foreign minister says US strikes on nuclear sites left „extensive and serious“ damage
Some background: The bill suspending cooperation with the watchdog is now on its final step before becoming law, having been sent to the country’s president for his signature. However, Iran’s supreme leader and the SNSC have decisive authority over how such policies are executed and whether cooperation is effectively suspended.
Reaktor Garching darf mit hochangereichertem Uran weiterlaufen
(Juni 21, 2024)
Im Garchinger Forschungsreaktor werden normalerweise wissenschaftliche Experimente – etwa im Bereich Quantentechnologie oder Archäologie – durchgeführt. Daneben produzieren Kunden aus der Industrie zum Beispiel Radioisotope und Radiopharmaka für die Krebsdiagnostik und -behandlung. Die TUM verweist aber etwa auch darauf, dass Forschende des späteren Corona-Impfstoffherstellers „Biontech“ in der Garchinger Neutronenquelle mRNA-Partikel untersucht hätten.
Report: Israel attacks Iran‘s Fordow nuclear site
„The aggressor attacked the Fordow nuclear site again,“ Tasnim news agency reported, quoting a spokesperson for the crisis management authority in Qom province where the site is located.
The UN nuclear watchdog says Iran had informed it about „special measures to protect nuclear material“.
Israel-Iran war: After explosions boom Bushehr, Iran‘s only nuclear plant; Rosatom downplays attack – ‘site remains…’
Bushehr is Iran‘s only operating nuclear power plant and was built by Russia. Located on the Gulf Coast, at Bushehr, Russian fuel is used and then taken back to Russia when its spent in order to reduce nuclear proliferation risk, reported Reuters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia has up to 600 staff at Bushehr, including 250 permanent workers and others on temporary assignment. He said Israel had issued a promise to Russia over their safety.
Israel fordert atomaren Angriff auf den Iran
(July 22, 2006)
„Washington Times“, 31.01.2003,
Bush genehmigt Einsatz von Atomwaffen
Im geheimen „National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD) 17“ Dokument genehmigt die US-Regierung den präventiven Einsatz von Atomwaffen, explizit zum Ausschalten unterirdischer Anlagen oder falls Alliierte mit chemischen oder biologischen Waffen angegriffen würden, so die Washington Times.
(…)
Boston Globe, 25.01.2005,
Der Chef des Mossad, Meir Dagan, sagt, daß der Iran an der Schwelle zur Anreicherung von Uran steht und innerhalb von 2 Jahren Atomwaffen produzieren könnte.
Dazu Dick Cheney:
„Wenn die Israelis wirklich zu der Überzeugung gelangt sind, daß der Iran Nuklearkapazitäten hat,… dann könnten sie entscheiden zuerst zu handeln und den Rest der Welt sich darum kümmern lassen den diplomatischen Scherbenhaufen hinterher wegzumachen.“
(…)
New Yorker, 08.04.2006 (Anm.: 17. April 2006 später vermerkter Erscheinungstermin), Seymour Hersh:
Laut Hersh plant die Bush-Administration und das Pentagon den Einsatz von atomaren B61-11 „bunker busters“ gegen Iran´s unterirdischen Einrichtungen wie in Natans (Natanz). Anders seien Anlagen, die wie Natans unter 75 Fuß Erde und Gestein liege, nicht zu zerstören.
Kommentar eines Air-Force-Planers: „Es ist eine harte Entscheidung. Aber wir fällten sie in Japan.“
Die Entscheidung zur Option eines Atomkrieges rief offenbar größte Unruhe im Generalstab der US-Militärs hervor, einige Offiziere hätten mit Rücktritt gedroht, es wurde verlangt diese Option vom Tisch zu nehmen.
Doch das Weiße Haus habe das zurückgewiesen. „Was wollt Ihr denn? Die Option kam doch von Euch.“
Ein früherer Regierungsbeamter berichtete, die Bush Administration ginge von der irrwitzigen Annahme aus, daß das iranische religiöse Regime durch eine schwere Bombardierung zusammenbrechen und von der Bevölkerung gestürzt würde.
The Iran Plans
(April 9, 2006)
One of the military’s initial option plans, as presented to the White House by the Pentagon this winter, calls for the use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, against underground nuclear sites. One target is Iran’s main centrifuge plant, at Natanz, nearly two hundred miles south of Tehran. Natanz, which is no longer under I.A.E.A. safeguards, reportedly has underground floor space to hold fifty thousand centrifuges, and laboratories and workspaces buried approximately seventy-five feet beneath the surface. (…)
The lack of reliable intelligence leaves military planners, given the goal of totally destroying the sites, little choice but to consider the use of tactical nuclear weapons. “Every other option, in the view of the nuclear weaponeers, would leave a gap,” the former senior intelligence official said. “ ‘Decisive’ is the key word of the Air Force’s planning. It’s a tough decision. But we made it in Japan.”
Alarm as White House Says Trump Has Not Ruled Out Dropping Nuclear Weapon on Iran
(June 19, 2025)
An unnamed Trump administration official told Fox News senior White House correspondent Jaqui Heinrich that „none of the options are off the table,“ denying a Guardian report that said the president was „not considering using a tactical nuclear weapon“ on Iran‘s heavily entrenched Fordow nuclear site.
Trump‘s reported consideration of a nuclear option comes amid internal concerns that the 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs the U.S. possesses within striking distance of Iran would be insufficient to destroy Fordow.
Gabbard Falls in Line, Claims Iran Close to Nukes
(June 20, 2025)
NBC News reports that Gabbard has been sidelined in the White House debate on Iran. In her X post, the intelligence chief appeared to attempt to align her view with the president’s. “Iran is at the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months, if they decide to finalize the assembly,” she wrote. “President Trump has been clear that can’t happen, and I agree.”
Many users on X are comparing Gabbard’s post to former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s 2003 address to the UN Security Council. During the speech, Powell infamously presented false information that hardened beliefs among Americans that Iraq was seeking weapons of mass destruction, and that dictator Saddam Hussein had ties to al-Qaeda.
CIA Chief Echoes Mossad Finding on Iran Nuclear Program
(June 20, 2025)
CIA Director John Ratcliffe appears to be one of the advocates of Mossad’s position within the White House. Breaking Points host Sagar Enjeti reports, “A senior US intelligence official tells me that there is ZERO independent US intelligence to back up CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s pronouncement that Iran is ‘at the one-yard line’ of a nuclear weapon.”
He continued, “All of the intelligence is from Israel.”
Michael Brenner: Over the Brink
Potential consequences are catastrophic. This action is in violation of the explicit Constitutional provision that Congress alone has the power to declare war. That fundamental fact gets barely mentioned in whatever public discourse has taken place.
The termination point of this reckless path to war will find the U.S. despised in the world — whatever the immediate military outcome. At home, the nation will demonstrate once again that it has become incapable of shame, and that whatever self-respect survives will be in the form of that confected adulation that egoists apply to themselves.
Trump-Netanyahu-Grossi evil triangle plus Merz’s delight
Now, there is little doubt that Grossi is an agent of the CIA. It is for this reason that Mike Pompeo, the CIA chief and secretary of state in Trump’s first administration, backed Grossi as the director general of the IAEA against his rival, Cornel Feruta from Romania.
On June 18 new German chancellor Friedrich Merz also tried to show his servitude to Israel by praising Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites, saying, “I can only say I have the greatest respect for the fact that the Israeli army and the Israeli government had the courage to do this.”
It is astonishingly surprising that strikes on nuclear sites, which are a war crime under international law, and are being lauded by the German leader.
EU says Iran must not have ‚nuclear weapon‘ after US strikes
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, has warned that Iran must not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon, calling it a threat to international security.
Iran condemns U.S. strike on nuclear facilities as ‚criminal act of aggression‘
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran condemns in the strongest possible terms the United States’ brutal military aggression against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities—a grave and unprecedented violation of the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations and international law,” the statement began.
The Iranian government squarely placed responsibility on Washington for their “heinous crime” and warned of “dangerous consequences and far-reaching implications.”
Donald Trump says US has struck Iranian nuclear sites
22 June 2025 01:25 BST
Donald Trump has announced in a social media post that the US has „completed our very successful attack“ on three nuclear sites in Iran.
„We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,“ Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday evening.
„All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow,“ he said.
„All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!
Israel strikes Iranian nuclear plant in Isfahan as FM arrives in Turkey for talks
Israel attacked Iran‘s Isfahan nuclear site in the early hours of Saturday, the Fars news agency reported, saying there were no hazardous leaks or risk to the population. (,,,)
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Istanbul on Saturday, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, for a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as the conflict with Israel rages.
Israel strikes Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, state television says
Israel has attacked Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, Iranian state television said Thursday.
The report said there was “no radiation danger whatsoever” and that the facility had already been evacuated before the attack.
Israel had warned earlier Thursday morning it would attack the facility and urged the public to flee the area.
More Americans oppose than support a U.S. airstrike in Iran, poll finds
What do Americans think about the possibility of launching U.S. airstrikes against Iran, which President Donald Trump threatened this week unless the country dismantles its nuclear program? The Washington Post texted more than 1,000 people on Wednesday to ask.
The poll finds Americans opposing U.S. airstrikes against Iran by a 20 percentage-point margin — 45 percent to 25 percent — with a sizable 30 percent saying they are unsure.
Israel says Iran was racing toward a nuclear weapon. US intel says it was years away
When Israel launched its series of strikes against Iran last week, it also issued a number of dire warnings about the country’s nuclear program, suggesting Iran was fast approaching a point of no return in its quest to obtain nuclear weapons and that the strikes were necessary to preempt that outcome.
But US intelligence assessments had reached a different conclusion – not only was Iran not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon, it was also up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one to a target of its choosing, according to four people familiar with the assessment.
Satellite photos reveal damage to Iranian missile bases and nuclear facilities after Israeli strikes
Satellite images analyzed Saturday by The Associated Press revealed some of the damage sustained by Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal and nuclear facilities in the blistering Israeli attack on the country.
Araghchi bezeichnet den Angriff Israels auf nukleare Einrichtungen als großes Verbrechen gegen das Völkerrecht
Der iranische Außenminister wies in diesem Telefongespräch auf die eklatante Verletzung der Prinzipien der Charta der Vereinten Nationen und des Völkerrechts durch das zionistische Regime während des Verhandlungsprozesses zwischen Iran und den USA hin und sagte: Das zionistische Regime hat nur zwei Tage vor der sechsten Verhandlungsrunde in Muscat mit der Verletzung der Souveränität und territorialen Integrität Irans die nuklearen Einrichtungen und Wohngebiete im Iran angegriffen. Es ist offensichtlich, dass das Hauptziel dieses Übergriffs des Regimes darin besteht, die diplomatischen Prozesse zu stören und andere in einen ungerechten Krieg zu verwickeln.
A nuclear consortium in the Persian Gulf as a basis for a new nuclear deal between the United States and Iran
(June 2, 2025)
Concerns about uranium-enrichment and related potential nuclear-weapons ambitions of both Iran and Saudi Arabia could be dealt with by a regional nuclear consortium within which enrichment-related activities would be spread across and shared among states, rather than be national nuclear programs.
We sketch here a possible regional multinational nuclear consortium whose initial core partners are Iran, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The Nuclear Kingdom: Assessing Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Behavior
(December 17, 2024)
Saudi Arabia has the characteristics of a nuclear hedger: a state that lays the groundwork for the active pursuit of nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia has stated the conditions under which it would pursue nuclear weapons. It already possesses dual-capable delivery systems and seeks reactors to produce weapons-grade uranium. Its inability to enrich nuclear material alone prevents Saudi Arabia from gaining nuclear latency that it can rapidly convert into nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia is best categorized as an insurance hedger that seeks to reduce the time needed to build a bomb. Regardless of the categorization of Saudi Arabia’s hedging, its interest in nuclear weapons has entered a new, acute stage.
Saudi Push for Enrichment Raises Concerns
(November 2023)
The Wall Street Journal reported in September that Netanyahu directed Israeli officials to work with the United States on an agreement that includes Saudi enrichment, but such a deal still would face criticism in Israel. (…)
Given Saudi Arabia’s public threats to develop nuclear weapons, it may be challenging for the Biden administration to gain support for any agreement that allows uranium enrichment, particularly if the kingdom does not have an additional protocol to its comprehensive safeguards agreement in place. Additional protocols to safeguards agreements were developed in the 1990s when it became clear from the cases of Iraq and North Korea that a comprehensive safeguard agreement alone was insufficient to prevent proliferation. An additional protocol gives the IAEA more access and information about a country’s nuclear activities.
What a U.S.-Saudi Nuclear “Pathway” Might Mean for the Iran Talks
(April 16, 2025)
Apparently concerned about the potential risk of Saudi nuclear proliferation, Wright also stated, “There will definitely be a 123 agreement.” This was a reference to the eponymous section of the 1954 U.S. Atomic Energy Act, which mandates that formal proliferation safeguards must be put in place before American agencies or companies can help a country start up a civil nuclear industry. The “gold standard” version of a 123 agreement explicitly prohibits enriching or reprocessing nuclear material—a limitation that only the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan have accepted in the past. Countries must instead agree to import reactor fuel rather than producing it themselves, and allow international inspections as well.
World reacts to Israeli attack on Iran over nuclear activity
(June 13, 2025)
Following is global reaction:
Forschungsreaktor darf mit hochangereichertem Uran weiterlaufen
(Juni 2024)
Der Forschungsreaktor war im Jahr 2004 als eine der wichtigsten
Neutronenquellen Europas für Forschung, Medizin und Industrie in
Betrieb gegangen. Der Betrieb mit bis zu 93 Prozent angereichertem
Uran war bis Ende 2010 genehmigt, dann sollte auf maximal 50 Prozent
umgestellt werden. Mangels dieses Brennstoffs wurde der Betrieb bis
jetzt aber von den Behörden weiter genehmigt.
«Es geht hier um extrem wichtige Forschungsinfrastruktur für Bayern,
Deutschland und Europa», betonte Minister Blume. Die in Garching
gewonnene kerntechnische Expertise sei beispielsweise entscheidend
für medizinischen Fortschritt.