No UN inspections of Iran’s nuclear sites planned, senior lawmaker says

"We're not afraid of war. We do not seek war. President Trump has said that his administration has come to create peace, but the path that they have embarked upon will set fire to the entire region," Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian told NBC News.

"We have never been starting any wars, but whomever attacks us, we will do our utmost to give them the strongest answer. We will see certainly augmenting capabilities on a daily basis so as to prevent anyone from attacking us," he added.

European powers "offered a lot of opportunities to come to a new negotiated solution, but they (Iran) didn’t use that space,” German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told Bloomberg TV.

“The sanctions will be imposed," he was quoted as saying.

However, he added, there would always be space for diplomacy.

The resolution drafted by Russia and China to delay the snapback of Iran sanctions will not succeed today, according to parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee chairman Ebrahim Azizi, who said he learned this after a phone call with Foreign Minister Araghchi.

Iran's foreign ministry on Friday accused the United States of stigmatizing and threatening Iran over its nuclear program even though the country's "sole pursuit is the peaceful use of nuclear technology."

"The very actors that maintain vast stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction choose, instead of fulfilling their disarmament obligations, to carry out acts of sabotage and attack against our peaceful facilities," it said.

"Iran reaffirms its inalienable right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy and calls upon the world to stand firm against such duplicity & double standards," Iran's foreign ministry said in a post on its X account.