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The pursuing is the transcript of an interrogation with erstwhile FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, Pfizer committee subordinate and non-executive president of the committee astatine Illumina, that aired connected "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" connected June 29, 2025.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We crook present to Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, who joins america from New York. Welcome to "Face the Nation."
AMB. IRAVANI: Thank you for having me.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Ambassador, tin you springiness america immoderate clarity? Does Iran mean to reconstitute a atomic enrichment programme connected its soil?
AMB. IRAVANI: You cognize that we are a member, liable member, of the NPT, and according to the- this treaty, we person the communal rights. It means that the close of 1 broadside volition beryllium the work of the different side. In the NPT, it has been defined that we person 2 precise explicit right. The archetypal is that we tin person probe connected development, we tin person the accumulation of uranium, and we tin have, to use, the peaceful energy. And the 2nd close is that the ineligible extortion by the IAEA for our enactment and method practice for our improvement program.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
AMB. IRAVANI: And successful return, also, it volition beryllium 2 close for the bureau successful this regard, that they should person the afloat entree according to the safe, broad safeguard agreement.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
AMB. IRAVANI: And the 2nd 1 is that to sphere our peaceful atomic activity, volition stay ever successful peaceful manner. So the enrichment is our right, and an inalienable right, and we privation to instrumentality this right.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So you bash program to restart enrichment, that sounds like?
AMB. IRAVANI: I deliberation that enrichment volition not- ne'er stop.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, erstwhile you mentioned NPT, conscionable for our listeners, you're talking astir immoderate of the planetary agreements Iran has made with the UN connected nonproliferation and safeguards. You mentioned the UN atomic inspectors. Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a connection yesterday saying that determination were calls successful Iran, this, I believe, is from a paper that the Supreme Leader oversees, accusing our anterior guest, Rafael Grossi, of being an Israeli spy and calling for his apprehension and execution. To beryllium clear, is Iran threatening UN inspectors?
AMB. IRAVANI: No, determination is nary immoderate threat. It is simply a precise wide instrumentality of the- our parliament that they person been suspended, our practice with IAEA, due to the fact that the bureau has not implemented their rights, their responsibility. Due to this it is simply a conditional law, and arsenic agelong arsenic this information has not been set, truthful our practice with IAEA volition beryllium suspended. But whenever it acceptable retired arsenic according to the law, truthful we tin have- resume our cooperation. But determination is nary immoderate menace against the wide manager of the IAEA.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, that was published successful Israel- successful Iran's "Kayhan" newspaper. Your overseas curate did besides accidental that the IAEA and Grossi himself are malign successful intent. Are the IAEA personnel, are the inspectors already wrong Iran safe? And tin they spell backmost to their enactment of inspecting your sites?
AMB. IRAVANI: Exactly. They are successful Iran. They are successful the harmless condition, but the enactment has been suspended. They cannot person accesses to our site, but possibly immoderate one, it is individual, sentiment of the radical that whitethorn knock the IAEA oregon menace the wide director. But we knock IAEA. We- our appraisal is that they person not done their jobs, truthful they failed and they prepared [inaudible] for specified aggression against us.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I ideate that you would condemn the calls for his execution?
AMB. IRAVANI: Yeah.
MARGARET BRENNAN: President Trump's--
AMB. IRAVANI: (INAUDIBLE) --media.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I know, and you're speaking to america from the UN. President Trump said Friday that Iranian officials privation to conscionable with him personally, and helium said that volition beryllium soon. Mr. Ambassador, is Tehran readying to driblet this request of indirect connection with the United States, and volition you statesman speaking with the Trump administration?
AMB. IRAVANI: See you, we were successful the negotiation, but due to the fact that we cognize that immoderate quality betwixt Iran and United States oregon different parts of the JCPOA cannot beryllium resolved without the dialog and utilizing the peaceful means for- to resoluteness this dispute. So we are successful the negotiation, and we are acceptable for the negotiation, but aft this aggression, it is not due information for a caller circular of the negotiation, and determination is nary petition for dialog and gathering with the president.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, the United States is wanting to conscionable with Iran to talk, and portion the ultimate person issued a connection saying Iran had dealt the U.S. a slap successful the face, aft that, President Trump said helium had really stopped Israel from going further and had stopped Israel from an effort to termination your ultimate leader. Why not instrumentality the connection of a diplomatic lifeline? Because helium seems to beryllium offering one.
AMB. IRAVANI: It is precise gross usurpation of the planetary instrumentality that- threatening the Supreme Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran oregon immoderate caput of state, they person impunity from immoderate attack. So we should recognize that, what is the rule and information for immoderate negotiation? Negotiation is- has its- the principles, and it is simply a springiness and instrumentality process. So we should prosecute successful the dialog and sermon with each other, possibly we scope to a decision oregon not, but the unconditional surrender is not negotiation. It is dictating the argumentation toward us. If they are acceptable for negotiation, they volition find america acceptable for that, but if they privation to dictate us, it is intolerable for immoderate dialog with them,
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mr. Ambassador, convey you for your clip today. We volition beryllium watching and waiting to spot if determination are immoderate diplomatic opportunities. We'll beryllium close back.
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