Iran is not looking to enrich uranium to the levels needed to build an atomic bomb, Tehran’s envoy to the United Nations’ atomic agency tells AFP.

Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, also said that US-Israeli strikes on the country’s Bushehr nuclear power plant constitute a “war crime” under international law.

Najafi argued that the US allegation that Tehran was looking to enrich uranium to the purity needed to build an atomic weapon was a “lie”.

In an interview with AFP, Najafi denied that Tehran had “restarted enrichment” of radioactive uranium following the US-Israeli strikes on the Islamic republic’s nuclear facilities in June 2025.

“We didn’t start the claim that Iran would like to restart the enrichment, we didn’t restart enrichment, and it was a lie, a very big lie, like the other lies,” the Iranian envoy said in an interview with AFP.