Pezeshkian rules out new negotiations with Western powers

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel knows the location of 450 kilograms of highly enriched uranium in Iran and has shared the information with the United States.

“We certainly know where it is. We have a pretty good idea where it is, and we share that information with each other,” Netanyahu said in an interview with Fox News when asked whether Israel knows where the uranium is and has plans to neutralize it.

He said that Israel knew in advance of the June strikes that the stockpile would not be destroyed.

“We knew that in advance. In fact, our whole plan before and after the United States decided to join us took into account that we wouldn't get these 450 kilograms of enriched uranium,” Netanyahu said.

“We knew that. What we were targeting is the capacity to make more of that enriched uranium and also the attempt to weaponize it.”

He added that reinstatement of UN sanctions on Iran was a positive step toward increasing pressure to stop Tehran from resuming its nuclear program.

“I'm glad… We have to keep up the diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran to make it clear that we will not tolerate a resumption of their efforts to build nuclear bombs to destroy my country and yours (the United States),” he said.

Iranian exiled prince Reza Pahlavi welcomed the UN Security Council’s decision to reimpose snapback sanctions on Iran, calling it a long-overdue acknowledgment that the Islamic Republic is “incapable of reform or rehabilitation.”

“These sanctions and their consequences are the responsibility of Ali Khamenei and his criminal regime who over 46 years have dragged Iran from prosperity to isolation,” Pahlavi said on X.

“While sanctions alone will not stop the regime’s aggression, they deprive it of vital resources used for repression at home and terror abroad,” he added.

Pahlavi urged governments to take further steps, saying: “Designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization, isolate the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism economically and diplomatically, and provide maximum support to the Iranian people in their fight for freedom.”

“My Swedish colleague sent me the video on Friday. My first reaction was that it was amusing. But I immediately added, 'sad too’,” Valtonen told Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s largest daily newspaper.

She added that she does not change her clothing based on who she is meeting and avoids events that require covering the face or hair.

Valtonen said she raises women’s rights in every meeting with Iranian officials, including this week’s talks.

Iranian state television blurred Valtonen’s legs in a news broadcast of her meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard’s legs were also blurred in the same broadcast. The footage was widely shared on social media, including by Iranian women's rights activist and journalist Masih Alinejad.

Finland’s National Coalition Party, which Valtonen represents, also reacted on Instagram, calling the incident “a sad example of the trampling of women’s rights.”

"This is a reminder of how women around the world are still controlled and erased from visibility. Every woman has the absolute right to be seen, heard, and live freely," the party wrote on a post on Instagram.

"The National Coalition Party stands firmly for women’s rights — both in Finland and globally," it added.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the UN Security Council’s decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran.

“Tehran has long ignored calls from the IAEA and the international community, undermining the nuclear order,” Zelenskyy said on X.

He compared Iran’s actions to Russia’s seizure of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, warning that both pose serious threats to nuclear security.

“Reckless regimes that ignore basic international law norms and pursue ambitions that endanger nuclear security must face a united and strong international response,” Zelenskyy added.

Iran's economic isolation would further intensify, stoking public fury, without a breakthrough in talks with the West over its nuclear program, Reuters reported citing four Iranian officials and two insiders.

They said agreeing to the West’s demands could create divisions within the ruling elite and undermine the Islamic Republic’s core principle of resisting Western pressure, a key element of Tehran’s defiant posture.

"The clerical establishment is trapped between a rock and a hard place. The existence of the Islamic Republic is in peril," Reuters reported citing an Iranian official as saying.

"Our people cannot handle more economic pressure or another war," the source added.

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