Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the country still has the experts, technology and equipment to restart uranium enrichment despite damage to its facilities. He confirmed in an interview with the Financial Times newspaper that Tehran had been preparing to activate a site near Isfahan when it was hit in U.

Iran’s Foreign Minister has issued a defiant response to President Trump calling Iranian leaders “stupid” for vowing to continue uranium enrichment. -In a fiery social media post, Abbas Araghchi said Iran would not abandon its “homegrown and peaceful technology” simply because “bullying foreigners demand it.

By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer Iran’s foreign minister confirmed this week that U.S. airstrikes left the country’s nuclear facilities “destroyed” but said Iran would continue to enrich uranium.

While Iranian officials continue to insist that their nuclear program exists for energy and medical research purposes, Western analysts and organizations already critical of Israel and U.S. leadership continue to echo those same talking points – even though decades of Israeli intelligence operations should give them serious pause.