Pezeshkian Offers to Dilute Iran’s Enriched Uranium and Allow Inspections
The proposal comes as the seven-month conflict continues and Iran confirms the deaths of senior leaders and officials.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has offered to dilute Iran’s enriched uranium and submit the country’s nuclear program to international inspections, in a bid to revive a collapsed peace framework with the United States. He made the proposal in an interview with Fox News’ “Special Report,” while direct hostilities between Washington and Tehran continue to escalate.
Pezeshkian denied that Tehran seeks to build a nuclear bomb and appealed to Washington to halt the violence and resume negotiations. He repeatedly cited a religious decree, or fatwa, issued by Iran’s late Supreme Leader that bans the development and use of weapons of mass destruction.
The offer comes during a devastating seven-month military conflict in the Middle East that has decimated Iran’s leadership, crippled its economy and pushed the region to the brink of total war. Pezeshkian confirmed that U.S. military operations had killed the country’s Supreme Leader, as well as key nuclear scientists, government officials and senior military commanders.
Despite those losses, Pezeshkian said the religious prohibition on nuclear weapons remains the state’s binding policy, describing the pursuit of such weapons as an unholy and illegal path Iran has no intention of taking.
The conflict began in February, after President Donald Trump ordered “Operation Epic Fury,” a sweeping military offensive intended to neutralize Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. The operation followed intelligence reports that Tehran was enriching uranium to levels far above those required for civilian nuclear power.
