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Iran rejects 'baseless' UK daily's report on scaling back uranium enrichment level

Iran Press TV

Wednesday, 27 August 2025 8:33 AM

Iran has rejected as "baseless" a report by a British daily alleging that Tehran is willing to reduce its uranium enrichment level in a bid to prevent the re-imposition of the United Nations sanctions, warning against publishing "unsubstantiated" material.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in London expressed deep concern over the repeated publication of "biased and unfounded" reports about the Islamic Republic by the Telegraph.

The embassy further emphasized that "these articles lack credibility, are based on vague and unreliable sources, and present a distorted and misleading picture of the realities in Iran."

"Such an approach is contrary to the principles of professional journalism, impartiality, and commitment to the truth," it added.

Furthermore, the embassy said it categorically rejects the baseless claims and has formally requested a correction of the published report and equal space for the publication of the embassy's official response.

The statement also highlighted the potential damage to journalistic integrity, public trust, and relations based on mutual respect if reliance on unverifiable sources persists, emphasizing that the responsibility for the consequences of such actions lies with those who publish such material.

In a report published on Sunday, the Telegraph claimed that Iran is prepared to lower uranium enrichment to 20 percent purity, down from 60 percent.

The report identified Ali Larijani, the newly appointed head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), as the central figure behind this decision—a claim that Iran has firmly rejected.

Earlier, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei emphasized that the British daily has a history of fabricating news by citing non-existent sources and generating and disseminating news about Iran without any external basis.

Baghaei further stated that the entirety of the news is fundamentally questionable and lacks any substantiated basis.

Iran has emphasized that the country has no intention of abandoning its nuclear program, including uranium enrichment, despite Western pressure and the military aggression by the United States and its regional ally, Israel, against the country in June.

On June 13, Israel launched a blatant and unprovoked act of aggression against Iran, assassinating numerous high-ranking military commanders, nuclear scientists, and ordinary civilians.

More than a week later, the United States joined the conflict by bombing three Iranian nuclear sites, an action which constitutes a grave violation of the United Nations Charter, international law, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

This comes as the European signatories have threatened to trigger the so-called snapback mechanism, which would restore all UN sanctions on Iran that were lifted under the deal.

European countries have said they will wait until the end of August to decide whether Tehran is serious about further negotiations on its nuclear work or whether they should invoke the snapback mechanism.

Iran asserts that European states lack both the legal standing and moral authority to invoke the "snapback" mechanism, a provision of the 2015 nuclear deal that would re-impose six UN Security Council resolutions against Tehran, originally adopted between 2006 and 2010.

The United States and Iran had been in talks to find a replacement for the 2015 deal, but these negotiations were halted following a surprise US-Israeli aggression against Iran.