TEHRAN, May 12 — A senior Iranian lawmaker said on Tuesday that Tehran could consider enriching uranium to 90 percent purity if the country comes under attack again.
Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesman for the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, made the remarks after U.S. President Donald Trump warned that the ceasefire between Washington and Tehran is “on massive life support.”
“One of Iran’s options in the event of another attack could be 90 percent (uranium) enrichment. We will review it in the parliament,” Rezaei wrote on social media X.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said on Monday that the country’s nuclear technology and uranium enrichment are non-negotiable, the official news agency IRNA reported.
After 40 days of fighting that started with U.S.-Israeli joint attacks on Tehran and other Iranian cities on Feb. 28, Iran, the United States and Israel reached a ceasefire on April 8.
Following the truce, Iranian and U.S. delegations held one round of peace talks in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad on April 11 and 12, which failed to yield an agreement.
Over the past weeks, the two sides have reportedly exchanged several proposed plans outlining conditions for ending the conflict through Pakistan. Iran’s response to the latest U.S. proposed text for ending the war was sent on Sunday, with Trump slamming it as “totally unacceptable.”
