Dubai, United Arab Emirates – US President Donald Trump said on Friday he expected Iran to open itself for international inspection to verify that it does not restart its nuclear program.
It was asked during a White House press conference whether it would be asked during an expected talks with Iran that the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations International Agency, or some other organizations had allowed it to carry out searches, Trump answered that the Islamic Republic should cooperate with the group “or someone we respect, including ourselves.”
Earlier, the senior Iranian diplomat said that the possibility of new negotiations with the United States on his country’s nuclear program “complex” through the American attack on three of the sites, which confessed to “severe damage”.
President Donald Trump listens to a briefing with the media, on Friday, June 27, 2025, at the White House in Washington.
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The United States was one of the two parties in the 2015 nuclear deal in which Iran agreed to restrictions on the uranium enrichment program in exchange for relief for sanctions and other advantages.
Nuclear talks
This deal was revealed after Trump was withdrawn unilaterally from the United States during his first term. Trump suggested that he is interested in new talks with Iran and said that the two sides would meet next week.
In an interview with Iranian government television broadcasting late on Thursday, Foreign Minister Abbas Aragshi left open that his country could again conclude talks about its nuclear program, but he suggested that he would not be any time soon.
“It has not been agreed to resume negotiations,” he said. “No time has been appointed, no promise has been made, and we did not even talk about the restart of the conversations.”
Aragici said that the American decision to intervene “made it more complicated and more difficult” to talks about the Iranian nuclear program.
Friday prayer
During the Friday prayers, many imams confirmed the message of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khawni from Thursday, that the war was a victory for Iran.
Claire Hamza Khalili, who is also vice president of Iran, pledged during the prayer service in Tehran that the courts would prosecute persons accused of spying for Israel “in a special way.”
During the war with Israel, Iran hanged many people who have already been held on charges of espionage, raising concerns from activists that it could manage a wave of executions after the conflict ended. According to what was reported, the authorities detained dozens in various cities on charges of cooperating with Israel.
Israel attacked Iran unabated from June 13, targeting its nuclear sites, defense systems, high -ranking military officials and atomic scientists.
Within 12 days of strikes, Israel said it had killed about 30 Iranian commanders and 11 nuclear scientists, while eight facilities related to nuclear weapons and more than 720 military infrastructure sites struck. More than 1,000 people, including at least 417 civilians, were killed, according to the Washington -based activists group.
Iran launched more than 550 ballistic missiles in Israel, most of which were intercepted, but those who were damaged caused damage to many areas and killed 28 people.
Israeli military spokesman, Dean. Gen Effie Defrin said on Friday that in some areas, it exceeded its operational goals, but it needed to remain alert.
“We are not subject to illusion, because the enemy did not change its intentions,” he said.
On Sunday, the United States intervened to hit three Iranian nuclear sites with Bunker Busters, which was brought down by B -2 – explosives designed to penetrate into the depths of the earth to harm the targets that are strongly fortified. In response, Iran launched missiles at an American base in Qatar on Monday, but did not cause any known victims.
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ROMP said the American attacks “completely blur” the Iranian nuclear program. However, on Thursday, Khounai accused the American president of exaggerating the damage, saying that the strikes had not “fulfilled anything important.”
In response, Trump told the correspondents on Friday that the sites were “bombing hell.” He even sent a message to the supreme leader: “See you are a man with great faith. A man with great respect in his country. You have to say the truth. You have been beaten to hell.”
A senior Israeli military official said on Friday that their intelligence shows that Israel’s strikes on various targets neutralize Iran’s ability to enrich uranium to 90 % from a “long period”. It was not clear whether this was contrary to a preliminary report of the United States, which indicates that the program was appointed months.
There was speculation that Iran had moved a lot of very fertilized uranium before strikes, which told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it had planned to do it.
Even if it turns out that this is true, the Director General of the Wikadiyah Agency, Rafael Mariano Grosso, told France International, that the damage to the Fordo site, which was built in a mountain, told “” very large. “
From other things, he said that the centrifuge is “completely accurate machines”, and it is not possible that “concussion of several bombs worth 30,000 pounds will not cause” important physical damage. “
“This centrifuge is no longer working,” he said.
Aragchchi acknowledged that “the level of damage is high, which is severe damage.”
He added that Iran has not yet decided whether it would allow the IAEA inspectors to assess the damage, but they will be removed “at the present time.”
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Amer Madani in Washington. Julia Franklke, Wissam Midnik in Jerusalem, contributed to this story.
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