Iran’s Nuclear Chief Says Its Taking Stock Of Damage, Plans To Restart Facilities

The Iranian government is declaring that it might rebuild their nuclear facilities, adding that the regime had taken steps to protect its nuclear facilities.

“We have taken the necessary measures and are taking stock of the damage,” Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami said Tuesday on state-run television, according to Iran’s state-owned Mehr News. “The plan is to prevent interruptions in the process of production and services … Plans for restarting (the facilities) have been prepared in advance, and our strategy is to ensure that production and services are not disrupted.”

“An adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, said his country still had stocks of enriched uranium and that ‘the game is not over,’ claiming that Tehran had been prepared for damage to its nuclear sites,” Alarabiya reported.

Last week, the White House issued a statement saying, “President Donald J. Trump has never wavered in his stance that Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon — a pledge he has made repeatedly, both in office and on the campaign trail. Since taking office, President Trump has clearly stated no fewer than a dozen times that Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.”

The statement then listed 15 times since Trump took office in January that Trump declared his position, then added, “President Trump made the same pledge no fewer than 40 times on the campaign trail and even earlier,” listing numerous statements Trump had made on the issue dating all the way back to 2011.

On Sunday, the day after President Trump ordered a strike on the three Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Esfahan and Natanz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio Secretary of State Marco Rubio told anchor Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that President Trump had tried to make a deal with Iran for months, emphasizing that Trump demanded Iran renounce its nuclear weapons program.

“They tried to play him along the way they’ve played every American president for the last 35 years and the president told them, ‘If we don’t get a deal’ — which is what we wanted — ‘then I’ll have to handle it differently.’ And that’s what he did last night. He handled it differently,” Rubio said. “But that was an Iranian choice. We didn’t make that choice. They did by playing games with Donald Trump, they made a huge mistake.”

“And a bunch of these countries, putting out statements condemning us — privately, they all agree with us — that this needed to be done. They got to do what they got to do for their own public relations purposes, but the only people in the world that are unhappy about what happened in Iran last night is the regime,” Rubio said.

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