Transcription: Amir-Saeid Iravani, Iran

The following is the transcription of an interview with the former FDA Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, a member of the Pfizer Board and non -executive president of the Illuminina Board, which was issued in “Fac The Nation with Margaret Brennan” on June 29, 2025.

Margaret Brennan: We now go to Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, who joins us from New York. Welcome to “face the nation.”

Iravani atmosphere: Thank you for inviting me.

Margaret Brennan: Ambassador, can you give us some clarity? Do Iran intend to reconstitute a nuclear enrichment program on its ground?

Iravani atmosphere: You know we are members, responsible member, TNP, and according to this treaty, we have mutual rights. It means that the right on one side will be the obligation on the other side. In the NPT, it has been defined that we have two very explicit rights. The first is that we can investigate the development, we can have the production of uranium and we can have, to use, peaceful energy. And the second right is that the legal protection of the OIEA for our activity and technical cooperation for our development program.

Margaret Brennan: Yes.

Iravani environment: And in return, it will also be two suitable for the agency in this regard, which should have full access in accordance with the safe and integral safeguard agreement.

Margaret Brennan: Yes.

Iravani environment: And the second is that to preserve our peaceful nuclear activity, it will always remain peacefully. So, enrichment is our right and an inalienable right, and we want to implement this right.

Margaret Brennan: Then, you plan to restart enrichment, does that sound?

Iravani atmosphere: I think enrichment will not stop.

Margaret Brennan: Well, when you mentioned NPT, only for our listeners, you are talking about some of the international agreements that Iran has made with the UN on non -proliferation and safeguards. You mentioned UN nuclear inspectors. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, issued a statement yesterday saying that he had called in Iran, I think this is a newspaper that the supreme leader supervises, accusing our previous guest, Rafael Grossi, of being an Israeli spy and asking for his arrest and execution. To be clear, is I an threatening one of UN inspectors?

Iravani atmosphere: No, there is no threat. It is a very clear law of our Parliament that have been suspended, our cooperation with the OIEA, because the agency has not implemented its rights, its responsibility. Because of this, it is a conditional law, and as long as this condition has not been established, so our cooperation with the OIEA will be suspended. But every time it is established according to the law, so we can resume our cooperation. But there is no threat against the general director of the OIEA.

Margaret Brennan: Well, which was published in Israel- in the newspaper “Kayhan” in Iran. His Foreign Minister also said that OIEA himself and Grossi himself are malignant in the intention. The Oiea staff are the inspectors already within Iran? And can they return to their work to inspect their sites?

Iravani atmosphere: exactly. They are in Iran. They are in safe conditions, but the activity has been suspended. They cannot have accesses to our site, but perhaps someone is the individual opinion of people who can criticize the OIEA or threaten the Director General. But we criticize the OIEA. We- Our evaluation is that they have not done their job, so they failed and prepared [inaudible] For such aggression against us.

Margaret Brennan: I imagine that you would condemn the calls for execution.

Iravani atmosphere: Yes.

Margaret Brennan: President Trump’s–

With. Iravani: (inaudible) -Media.

Margaret Brennan: I know, and you are talking to us from the UN. President Trump said Friday that Iranian officials want to meet him personally, and said that will be soon. Mr. Ambassador, do Tehran plan to eliminate this indirect communication demand with the United States, and start talking to the Trump administration?

Iravani atmosphere: see each other, we were in the negotiation, but because we know that any dispute between Iran and the United States or other parts of the JCPOA cannot be resolved without negotiation and use the peaceful means to solve this dispute. So we are in the negotiation, and we are ready for negotiation, but after this aggression, it is not an adequate condition for a new round of negotiation, and there is no request for negotiation and meeting with the president.

Margaret Brennan: Well, the United States wants to meet Iran to speak, and although the supreme leader issued a statement saying that Iran had slapped the United States, after that, President Trump said he had actually prevented Israel from going further and had prevented Israel from an attempt to kill his supreme leader. Why not take the offer of a diplomatic life? Because it seems to be offering one.

Iravani Environment: It is a very serious violation of international law that, threatening the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran or any Head of State, have impunity for any attack. So we must understand that, what is the principle and condition for any negotiation? Negotiation has its principles, and it is a process of giving and takes. Therefore, we must participate in the negotiation and discuss among us, perhaps we reach a conclusion or not, but unconditional surrender is not negotiation. He is dictating politics towards us. If they are ready for negotiation, they will find us ready for that, but if they want to dictate, it is impossible for any negotiation with them,

Margaret Brennan: Mr. Ambassador, thanks for your time today. We will be watching and waiting to see if there is any diplomatic opportunity. We will return.

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