Iran will never stop nuclear enrichment: Iranian ambassador

The Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, Amir-Saeid Iravani, has said his country will ‘never stop’ nuclear enrichment, saying it’s an ‘inalienable right’ that Iran plans on exercising.

In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” moderator Margaret Brennan pressed the ambassador on whether Iran intends to “reconstitute a nuclear enrichment program on its soil.”

Iravani cited a provision of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that says nonnuclear-weapon states have a right to peaceful nuclear technology, including uranium enrichment, as long as it remains within certain limits.

“So the enrichment is our right, and an inalienable right, and we want to implement this right,” Iravani said.

“So you do plan to restart enrichment, that sounds like?” Brennan responded.

“I think that enrichment will not — never stop,” he said.

President Trump ordered U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites last weekend, as another round of talks were set to begin amid the Trump administration’s efforts to secure a nuclear deal with Iran.

Source: Agencies