Iran’s president says Tehran will rebuild its nuclear facilities with ‘greater strength’

Tehran will rebuild its nuclear facilities “with greater strength,” Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian tells state media, adding that the country does not seek a nuclear weapon.

US President Donald Trump has warned that he would order fresh attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites should Tehran try to restart facilities that the United States bombed in June.

Pezeshkian made his comments during a visit to the country’s Atomic Energy Organization, during which he met with senior managers from Iran’s nuclear industry.

“Destroying buildings and factories will not create a problem for us, we will rebuild and with greater strength,” the Iranian president tells state media.

In June, the US joined Israel to launch strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities that Washington says were part of a program geared towards developing nuclear weapons.

Tehran, which routinely calls to destroy Israel, maintains that its nuclear program is for purely civilian purposes. However, before the war, Iran had been enriching uranium to levels just below weapons grade that has no peaceful purpose.

“It’s all intended for solving the problems of the people, for disease, for the health of the people,” Pezeshkian says in reference to Iran’s nuclear activities.