Iran vows to continue uranium enrichment, says ‘no one can tell us what to do’
'No one can tell us what we should or should not do as long as we move within framework of our obligations under the treaty,' Iranian deputy foreign minister says
ISTANBUL
Iran will continue its nuclear enrichment activities under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the deputy foreign minister said on Monday.
According to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi said on Monday that Iran will continue to enrich uranium despite strikes from Israel and the US.
“No one can tell us what we should or should not do as long as we move within the framework of our obligations under the treaty,” Ravanchi said in an interview with Germany’s national television Das Erste.
On Sunday, US President Donald Trump said American forces bombed Iran’s Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites.
The US targeted the sites with six bunker-buster bombs dropped on the Fordo facility with B-2 stealth bombers, along with dozens of submarine-launched cruise missile strikes on the Natanz and Isfahan facilities.
The attacks came as the latest escalation in a US-backed Israeli military assault on Iran since June 13, prompting Tehran to launch retaliatory attacks on Israel.
Israeli authorities said at least 25 people have been killed and hundreds injured since then in Iranian missile attacks.
Meanwhile, in Iran, at least 430 people have been killed and more than 3,500 wounded in the Israeli assault, according to the Iranian Health Ministry.
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