{"id":616642,"date":"2025-12-06T20:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/616642\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:50:15","slug":"us-yet-unwilling-to-engage-in-serious-talks-must-recognize-irans-right-to-peaceful-nuclear-energy-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/616642\/","title":{"rendered":"US yet unwilling to engage in serious talks, must recognize Iran\u2019s right to peaceful nuclear energy: FM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the United States has yet to demonstrate readiness for \u201creal, serious negotiation,\u201d stressing that Washington must first acknowledge Iran\u2019s right to peaceful nuclear energy under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an interview with Japan\u2019s Kyodo News agency on Saturday, the top diplomat said the Islamic Republic\u2019s nuclear facilities were \u201cbombarded, destroyed, and heavily damaged\u201d during the unprovoked and illegal Israeli-American war against the country in June.<\/p>\n

He described the assault as \u201cperhaps the biggest violation of international law\u201d ever committed against a safeguarded facility monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).<\/p>\n

Araghchi said the strikes had created structural damage and potential radiation risks that Tehran \u201chas never seen before,\u201d adding that there was \u201cno precedent of a peaceful nuclear facility being bombarded.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the situation had exposed a procedural gap inside the IAEA regarding how to inspect such sites in light of this precedence.<\/p>\n

He noted that the Islamic Republic and the IAEA had reached a framework in Cairo earlier this year to define a mechanism for inspecting and stabilizing the damaged facilities, but that the process was undermined when the United States and the three European parties to a 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran sought to restore previous UN Security Council sanctions against the nation.<\/p>\n

Araghchi called on Japan to share its technical expertise in nuclear safety, citing its experience following Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Fukushima Daiichi disaster.<\/p>\n

He emphasized that any cooperation with Japan would be limited to technical safety issues, not inspections, which he said remained an IAEA responsibility. \u201cOn the technical aspects of these safety challenges, cooperation with Japan can be very useful,\u201d the official noted.<\/p>\n

Addressing prospects for nuclear talks, Araghchi said Iran remained open to diplomacy, but wanted guarantees of a \u201cfair and balanced\u201d outcome.<\/p>\n

He reiterated that the deadlock affecting diplomacy stemmed from American demands, introduced under President Donald Trump, for the Islamic Republic to halt all uranium enrichment processes, a position Tehran categorically rejects.<\/p>\n

The foreign minister said the core issue remained Washington\u2019s reluctance to recognize Iran\u2019s right to peaceful nuclear technology, including enrichment, under the NPT.<\/p>\n

According to Araghchi, the Islamic Republic was prepared to accept limitations on enrichment levels and centrifuge types, and negotiations could progress once the United States accepted the country\u2019s peaceful nuclear energy program and lifted the illegal and unilateral sanctions it had imposed on the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the time being [though], we are not convinced they are ready for a real, serious negotiation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the United States has yet to demonstrate readiness for \u201creal, serious negotiation,\u201d stressing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-616642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115674600113434859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}