Iran’s Enriched Nuclear Material and Rights Under the NPT

The nuclear issue is not what we're discussing right now at all.

On the nuclear issue, we laid out some conditions.

The first point is that not a bit of the materials we've enriched will be sent outside Iran.

We also told our Russian friends that all the materials enriched in Iran will stay here.

We'll use them ourselves. There are plenty of uses for them, too.

We're even designing—right now— ships powered by nuclear energy or submarines powered by nuclear energy.

We want our enriched materials, we want them for ourselves.

We may even want to use them someday to build small SMR power plants.

Well, we want these materials. Why would we send them abroad?

So not a bit, not a bit of these enriched materials will leave Iran.

They're all under our control. The second point is the rights we have under the NPT.

All countries have twenty-two rights under the NPT, We have the NPT treaty.

As long as we're in the NPT, we must enjoy all our rights and benefit from them.

Then we'll fulfill our obligations. Because past experience showed we fulfilled all our obligations, but war broke out and we didn't exercise all our rights, we didn't exercise our nuclear rights under the NPT.

So we changed our behavior and diplomatic approach.