“Iran’s leadership does not intend to remove enriched nuclear material from the country.”
Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said this, Operative Information Center-OMM reports.
He said Tehran plans to use the material in future programs to build nuclear-powered ships and submarines.
“We will not allow even a particle of enriched nuclear material to leave Iran,” Rezaei said.
He added that Tehran had informed its partners in Russia and that the enriched material would remain in the country and be used.
Rezaei recalled that one of Iran’s conditions for resolving the crisis in the Middle East was a halt to all military operations in West Asia, particularly in Lebanon.
He stressed that Iran would respond if US strikes resumed.
The Iranian official also claimed that his country had developed electronic warfare systems capable of detecting and shooting down US-owned unmanned aerial vehicles.