{"id":12005,"date":"2026-06-21T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12005"},"modified":"2026-06-21T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:28:00","slug":"masoud-pezeskian-we-will-not-build-a-nuclear-bomb-iran-insists-on-uranium-enrichment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12005","title":{"rendered":"Masoud Pezeskian: We Will Not Build a Nuclear Bomb \u2014 Iran Insists on Uranium Enrichment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     <strong>Iran<\/strong> does not intend to acquire <strong>nuclear weapons<\/strong>, but considers its right to continue <strong>uranium enrichment<\/strong> non-negotiable, according to statements made by the country\u2019s president, <strong>Masoud Pezeskian<\/strong>, ahead of talks with the <b>U.S.<\/b> this <b>afternoon <\/b>in <b>Switzerland.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>     This statement by the Iranian president comes at a particularly critical juncture, as <strong>Tehran<\/strong> and <strong>Washington<\/strong> are attempting to keep communication channels open regarding the country\u2019s nuclear program. <\/p>\n<p>     \u201cThis is nothing new, and we can also state in writing that we have no intention of building the bomb,\u201d said <strong>Masoud Pezeskian<\/strong>, according to the Iranian presidency\u2019s website. <\/p>\n<p>     At the same time, he made it clear that his country\u2019s position on the issue of enrichment remains unchanged. \u201cHowever, we will not renounce our right to enrichment,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<h3>     What Tehran is citing <\/h3>\n<p>     The Iranian side maintains that this activity is covered by the <strong>Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)<\/strong>, which it has signed. <\/p>\n<p>     According to <strong>Tehran\u2019s<\/strong> interpretation, the treaty recognizes the right of member states to use nuclear energy for peaceful and non-military purposes, including uranium enrichment under specific conditions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Iran has no intention of acquiring nuclear weapons, but considers its right to continue enriching uranium non-negotiable, according to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}