Tehran will rebuild its nuclear facilities “with greater strength,” Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian told state media on Sunday, claiming again that the country does not seek atomic weapons.

US President Donald Trump has warned that he would order fresh attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites should Tehran try to restart operations at facilities that the United States bombed in June.

Pezeshkian made his comments during a visit to the country’s Atomic Energy Organization, during which he met with senior managers from Iran’s nuclear industry.

“Destroying buildings and factories will not create a problem for us; we will rebuild and with greater strength,” the Iranian president said to the press.

In June, the US joined Israel to launch strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities long suspected to be part of a program geared toward developing nuclear weapons.

Tehran, which routinely calls for the destruction of Israel, maintains that its nuclear program is for purely civilian purposes. However, before the war, Iran had been enriching uranium to levels just below weapons-grade, which has no peaceful application.

“It’s all intended for solving the problems of the people, for disease, for the health of the people,” Pezeshkian said Sunday in........

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