Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denied Tehran has undeclared nuclear sites and insisted the country is not carrying out uranium enrichment.
The denials came after US media outlets, including The Washington Post and The New York Times, reported that Iran has accelerated construction at a secret underground site called Pickaxe Mountain, or Kuh-e Kolang, near its Natanz nuclear facility.
He said all sites were monitored by the UN's nuclear watchdog. "There's no undeclared nuclear enrichment facility in Iran. All of our facilities are under the safeguard and monitoring of the agency," Mr Araghchi said during a forum in Tehran on Sunday. He added that there was "no enrichment" taking place because the sites were damaged in the war with Israel in June.
There has been no mention of the Pickaxe Mountain site by officials or Iranian media.
Deputy foreign minister Saeed Khatibzadeh told CNN that Tehran's nuclear
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