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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian announced on Sunday that his country will rebuild its nuclear facilities even more powerful, while reiterating Iran's lack of readiness to build a nuclear weapon.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed on Sunday to rebuild Tehran's damaged nuclear facilities, which were targeted in June in precision US strikes, as Washington accused Iran of trying to develop and acquire nuclear weapons.
Pezeshkian's announcement is apparently a challenge to US President Donald Trump, who in the days following his country's attacks on Iran, threatened to bomb the country again if the latter tried to restart its nuclear program.
The United States attacked Iran's nuclear facilities in June during the 12-day war with Israel, which Washington, and Israel, view as part of a deliberate program to acquire nuclear warheads.
The US dropped 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOP) bombs, approximately 14,000 kilograms each, known as bunker-busting bombs, on Tehran's three main nuclear facilities, Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, in a covert operation, codenamed "Midnight Hammer."
Trump claimed that the strikes, carried out by seven B-2 Stealth bombers, each carrying a payload of two bunker busters, "completely destroyed" Iran's facilities, a claim downplayed by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said Trump was exaggerating the damage caused.
However, Tehran has consistently insisted, before and after the US attacks, that its nuclear program is civilian in nature and pursues purely civilian purposes.
Pezeshkian repeated these claims while speaking before a meeting with senior nuclear industry executives during a visit to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran on Sunday.
" All these programs are for solving people's problems, for treating diseases and for the health of society. Science is in the minds of our scientists and there will be no problem with the destruction of buildings and factories; we will build again and with more energy ," the Iranian president said.
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