A few months after the unprecedented U.S. attacks on the Iranian regime’s nuclear facilities, Massoud Pezeshkian, the regime’s president, announced that Tehran will rebuild the destroyed sites “with even greater power.”
Pezeshkian made these remarks on Sunday, November 2, during a visit to an exhibition organized by Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.
The Iranian regime has repeatedly claimed that its nuclear activities are purely peaceful, but Western countries and Israel, citing certain activities and undeclared enriched uranium in Iran, accuse the regime of seeking to build a nuclear bomb.
Pezeshkian said: “The [nuclear] knowledge is in the minds of our scientists, and destroying the buildings and factories will not cause any problem; we will rebuild again, and with greater power.”
He referred to the fatwa (religious decree) issued by Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Iranian regime, which declares nuclear weapons “forbidden,” and said Tehran will not pursue such weapons based on that decree.
The United States has previously stated that it has never accepted Khamenei’s fatwa against nuclear weapons as a basis for trust.
Pezeshkian’s remarks about rebuilding Iran’s nuclear facilities come as U.S. President Donald Trump had earlier warned that if the Iranian regime seeks to resume its nuclear program, the United States will once again take action against it.
In recent months, Trump has repeatedly stated that Iran’s nuclear sites were destroyed during U.S. strikes.
He also described the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities by B-2 bombers as one of the most beautiful military operations in history, saying that the destruction of Iran’s nuclear capabilities ensured the regime would no longer be the bully of the Middle East.
The U.S. president has said that if America had not attacked the Iranian regime’s nuclear facilities, a dark cloud would have hung over the agreement to end the Gaza war.
Pezeshkian’s contradictory remarks about rebuilding nuclear facilities
In recent months, Pezeshkian has made contradictory statements about rebuilding the Iranian regime’s nuclear facilities.
Before the 12-day war with Israel, he had said that if Iran’s nuclear facilities were targeted, “we will rebuild them again.”
But after the Israeli and U.S. attacks on these facilities, he said during a cabinet meeting: “Well, they came and hit it; if we rebuild it again, they’ll come and hit it again.”
On October 31, Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), emphasized that the Iranian regime’s centrifuges were completely damaged and stated that the U.S. attacks had significantly halted Iran’s nuclear activity.
Grossi told Al Arabiya television that Iran’s centrifuges were completely damaged but the capacities still exist.
