Iran won't attack the US but will continue nuclear development, senior Iranian official says
President Donald Trump projected a correspondingly conciliatory tone in the wake of the Iranian strike, posting on Truth Social a message of gratitude for Iran's advance warning and declaring that 'they've gotten it all out of their 'system.''
Trump — who has promised to end multiple raging wars in his second term, as he openly angles for the Nobel Peace Prize — has claimed that the U.S. attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities were a smashing success, saying the strikes 'obliterated' the facilities and railing against reports that the attacks only set the program back by several months.
Iran has remained tight-lipped about the true impact of the strikes, prompting concern that the attacks have driven its nuclear program further underground. Already, the country has moved to halt cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, further shrouding its program from the globe.
'The damage is serious,' Takht-Ravanchi said of the American attack, without elaborating further.
Iran, which claimed that it moved its uranium stockpiles in advance of the U.S. attacks, has also been unwavering in its determination not to relinquish its enrichment program, despite American demands that it do so in order to reach a nuclear deal.
'Our policy has not changed on enrichment,' Takht-Ravanchi reiterated to NBC. 'Iran has every right to do enrichment within its territory. The only thing that we have to observe is not to go for militarization.'
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