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Tehran, Iran – 20 January 2025
1. Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman arriving for regular briefing
2. Journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman:
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has never negotiated and will never do so over its military and defensive capabilities with anyone."
4. Wide of briefing
5. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman:
"Misusing this mechanism (referring to the so-called snapback process in the Iran nuclear deal) will mean that there is no reason or justification for Iran to remain in some relevant treaties."
6. Pan left of briefing
7. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman:
"We have announced our stance with regard to the cease to the genocide in Gaza. In our opinion, the ceasefire means a stop in the plan to destroy Palestine."
8. Wide of briefing
9. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman:
"We hope that, four years later, we will not have the same opinion as what we have now about the past four years, and the U.S administration’s approaches and policies are realistic and based on international law and respect for interests and demands of the regional countries including the Iranian nation. This is our fixed stance that we have stated on various occasions."
10. Baghaei leaving
STORYLINE:
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman says his country will not negotiate over its military capabilities.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has never negotiated and will never do so over its military and defensive capabilities with anyone," Esmail Baghaei said at a briefing on Monday.
The United States and allies are concerned about Iran’s ballistic missile program and have called on Tehran to undertake no activity involving ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
Iran’s nuclear program now enriches uranium at 60%, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
While Iran maintains its program is peaceful, officials in the Islamic Republic increasingly threaten to potentially seek the bomb and an intercontinental ballistic missile that would allow Tehran to use the weapon against distant foes like the United States.
Baghaei also repeated threats by Iran to exit treaties, without explicitly mentioning the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), if the west activates the so-called “snapback” of the U.N. sanctions on Iran, which could be catastrophic for the Iranian economy. That “snapback” power expires in October.
"Misusing this mechanism (referring to the so-called snapback process in the Iran nuclear deal) will mean that there is no reason or justification for Iran to remain in some relevant treaties," Baghaei said.
The comments were made on the same day that Donald Trump is to be inaugurated as the new U.S president.
Baghaei said Iran hoped the new U.S administration adopts "realistic" policies and "respects" Iran.
"We hope that, four years later, we will not have the same opinion as what we have now about the past four years, and the U.S administration’s approaches and policies are realistic and based on international law and respect for interests and demands of the regional countries including the Iranian nation."
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