Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesperson for the Iranian regime’s Foreign Ministry, described the recent remarks by France’s foreign minister about the regime’s nuclear program as “completely baseless and absurd.”
Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s foreign minister, warned that if negotiations between Iran’s regime and the United States fail to ensure the security interests of European countries, the three European powers will immediately trigger the snapback mechanism to reinstate all United Nations sanctions against Iran.
On Monday, April 28, during a joint press conference with Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Barrot stated that Iran’s regime is pursuing nuclear weapons and has exceeded all of its uranium enrichment commitments.
Barrot added that Europe’s interest lies in ensuring that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon, and for that reason, they support and encourage the ongoing talks between the U.S. and Iran’s regime. He added that they are working closely with [U.S. politicians] Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, because each week they get closer to the expiration of the JCPOA.”
Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesperson for Iran’s regime Foreign Ministry, said: “These false remarks, coupled with threats to reimpose sanctions against Iran, reinforce the suspicion that France’s critical stance is morphing into a disruptive role.”
Baghaei added: “Such an approach will certainly add nothing to France’s credibility or its standing in Europe and the world.”
Iran’s regime has surpassed the limits set in the nuclear agreement and has produced stockpiles of highly enriched uranium — enrichment levels that, from the perspective of Western countries, go far beyond the needs of a peaceful energy program and are approaching the threshold required for producing a nuclear warhead.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Hossein Ranjbaran, an advisor to Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian regime’s foreign minister, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that he rejects reports by Reuters and the New York Times regarding the regime’s nuclear program.
Earlier, Reuters had reported — citing eight officials and diplomats familiar with the negotiations between the Iranian regime and the United States — that the talks are moving toward an agreement to limit, but not dismantle, Tehran’s nuclear program, which would not differ significantly from the original JCPOA.
In its 20 years of negotiations with Western governments, Iran’s regime has proven it has no intention of dismantling its nuclear weapons program. The world first became aware of this program when the National Council of Resistance of Iran (the largest political coalition opposing the regime) exposed it.
