“If necessary, we can confirm in writing that we do not intend to build a nuclear bomb,” Pezeshkian told state news agency IRNA on Sunday.
He did not specify whether the option was on the agenda for talks between Iranian and US representatives that began in Switzerland on Sunday, as the two sides seek to hammer out a long-term peace deal after a memorandum of understanding was signed earlier this week.
According to the terms of the aforementioned document, a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, which has been the main obstacle in the negotiations so far, must be reached within 60 days.
Mr Pezeshkian reiterated that Iran’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in US-Israeli strikes at the start of the war, rejected the development of weapons of mass destruction on religious grounds.
The political leadership of the Islamic Republic consistently asserts that it does not seek to have nuclear weapons.
Iran’s president has expressed faith in negotiations with the US, describing the agreements reached so far as “mainly in Iran’s interests”.
He said that in the first step, 6 billion could be unblocked. USD worth of Iranian assets frozen by the US in Qatar.
