Iran supreme leader on Trump nuclear destruction claim: ‘Keep dreaming’

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday countered President Trump’s claims that a U.S. strike in June destroyed Iranian nuclear facilities.

“The US President boasts that they’ve bombed and destroyed Iran’s nuclear industry. Very well, in your dreams!” Khamenei said in a post on social platform X. 

Posts on Khamenei’s account also criticized Trump’s brokering of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and rejected talks with the U.S. over Iran’s nuclear program. 

“The US President says that he makes deals and wants to make a deal with Iran. ‘Dealing’ where the outcome is predetermined using coercion isn’t a way of dealing. It’s a way of imposing something, and the Iranian nation will never submit to such impositions,” he said in the post. 

Trump has boasted about obliterating Iran’s nuclear capabilities with strikes against three of its facilities in June — Isfahan, Fordow and Natanz — joining an Israeli military operation against the country that lasted 12 days. 

Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview published Sunday that while those three sites are “massively damaged,” Iran still possesses 400 kilograms of 60 percent enriched uranium, a worrying amount because it can be scaled up to 90 percent enrichment for use in a weapon. 

“According to our information, the majority of this uranium remains in the nuclear facilities in Isfahan and Fordow, and some in Natanz. However, the facilities there were bombed, they are massively damaged, and some are underground,” Grossi said in an interview with the Swiss outlet Neue Zürcher Zeitung.