TEHRAN – The former Iranian ambassador to Germany sought the Musabians who were also part of Iran’s nuclear diplomacy team with the United Nations in the 2000s, and the strike at the US major Iranian nuclear site was only a small victory, ABC News reported.
Mousavian told 7.30 that physical Iranian assets may have been destroyed as part of the US so-called Operation Midnight Hammer, but that the nuclear “know-how” of Iranian scientists was not.
After the first Israeli strike, the fighting nations traded missile attacks before the US president claimed that the US attacks caused the destruction of nuclear sites in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.
“As shown in the satellite image, all nuclear sites in Iran have suffered monumental damage. Erase is an accurate term!” Trump had written about the true society.
Musabian, a Princeton University academic, questioned those claims and offered a warning.
“I don’t know the extent of the damage, no one knows,” Musabian told 7.30.
“There’s a conflict in the United States… But even if President Trump repeatedly insisted, if it was completely destroyed or severely damaged, what was the purpose of destroying facilities, buildings and utilities?
“But we cannot destroy know-how.
“We have the know-how. How can we kill know-how? Iranians, they have technology and can rebuild anything.
“Whether it’s a month, five or six months, that doesn’t matter.
“The Iranians have knowledge, so they cannot destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities.”
Enriched uranium “negotiation chip”
Mousavian said Iran only stockpiled 400 kilograms of uranium, enriched at 60% as a “negotiation chip.”
He accused Trump of “killing” Iran’s nuclear deal in his first term at the White House in 2018.
“Iran has been fully compliant for three years,” Musabian said.
“The United States violated when Iran was fully compliant, and the United States has imposed the most comprehensive sanctions ever in its history.
“() Due to US sanctions and pressure, Iran has increased the level and capabilities of the negotiation chip nuclear program to bring the US to the table.”
Citing knowledge from sources, Mousavian said 400 kilograms were at the heart of negotiations just before Israel hit Iran.
“They agreed that 400 kilograms would be diluted or exported,” he told 7.30. ”
“There is no danger, fear or concern about making 10 nuclear bombs there. Iran’s enrichment is below 5%, private enrichment.”
The Musabians said that Israel had started its first strike shortly after this.
Like the United States, Iran is a signatories of the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT).
Asked if Iran might consider leaving the treaty, the Musabians said it would depend on US actions.
“If the United States respects Iran’s rights as well as other members of the non-proliferation treaty, Iran will remain,” he told 7.30.
“Iran never went to a nuclear bomb. Iran will work together with the highest level of transparency and testing, as before.”
He was then asked whether our lack of respect meant that the Islamic Republic pursued nuclear weapons.
“If the US is trying to accelerate hostilities, wars, assassinations, fears, cyberattacks… why shouldn’t they?” he told 7.30.
7.30 elicited a passionate response from the Musabians, suggesting that the comments sounded like “threat.”
“It’s an American threat. It’s an Israeli threat,” he said.
“Iran has been attacked. Israel has attacked Iran, but now we are debating the Iranian threat.”
He later said that Israel has its own nuclear weapons.
When asked where the conflict would move to the next location, he said, “It’s all dependent on the United States.”