×

Iran’s Uranium Remains Despite US Attacks — Khamenei’s Adviser 

Ali Shamkhani said the "political and operational initiative is now with the side that plays smart, avoids blind strikes."

By Channels Television
Updated June 22, 2025
Twitter
This file handout satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies on January 28, 2020, shows an overview of Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, south of the capital Tehran. Satellite image ©2021 Maxar Technologies / AFP

 

 

An adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday that the country still had its stockpile of enriched uranium despite attacks by the United States on key nuclear sites.

“Even if nuclear sites are destroyed, game isn’t over, enriched materials, indigenous knowledge, political will remain,” said Ali Shamkhani in a post on X.

He added that the “political and operational initiative is now with the side that plays smart, avoids blind strikes. Surprises will continue!”

Meanwhile, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that the United States must “receive a response” to attacks on nuclear sites in the Islamic republic during a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron.

“The Americans must receive a response to their aggression,” Pezeshkian told the French leader, according to the official IRNA news agency.

 

(FILES) (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 7, 2024 shows Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) speaking after casting his ballot during the runoff presidential election in Tehran on July 5, 2024, and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waving at supporters at the end of a campaign rally at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 4, 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE and CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

 

READ ALSO: Iran’s Parliament Votes To Close Strait Of Hormuz After US Strikes

In a related development, at least nine members of the Revolutionary Guards were killed Sunday in Israeli attacks on central Iran, local media reported, as fighting between the two foes continued.

“Following the aggression of the barbaric Zionist regime and its mercenaries against two military centres in Yazd city, seven Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps personnel and two conscripts were martyred,” the Tasnim news agency reported, quoting an IRGC statement.

Others were injured in the attack, it added. The Fars news agency had earlier said Israeli strikes targeted two military sites in Yazd.

AFP

More Stories