Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that US President Donald Trump is “dreaming” if he thinks he has destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities. “That’s good, just keep dreaming!” he said, referring to Trump’s claims that Iran’s nuclear program was “completely destroyed” during the country’s war with Israel in June, in which Washington joined Jerusalem.
Khamenei asked Trump at the meeting “who is he to say whether a country can or cannot have the right to nuclear energy.” Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, October 18, that Tehran was no longer bound by restrictions on its nuclear program after an international agreement regulating it expired.
The agreement was signed in 2015 by Iran, France, Britain, Germany, the United States, Russia and China, and was supposed to regulate Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of United Nations (UN) sanctions.
According to the UN Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran is the only non-nuclear weapons state that is enriching uranium to a high level of 60 percent, close to the technical threshold of 90 percent needed to produce an atomic bomb.
