Source: Fox News · 2026-09-26 · Original article ↗

Iranian president blames US for Middle East conflict while denying nuclear ambitions, offers to dilute uranium

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Not at all, he told Baier. Then he offered to dilute. The war is in month seven.

Summary

  • Fox News reports Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in an exclusive interview with Bret Baier on Special Report, denied Thursday that Tehran wants a nuclear bomb and blamed Washington for the nearly seven-month Middle East war.
  • Asked point-blank if he wants a nuclear bomb, Pezeshkian said not at all, citing religious edicts. He said Iran is willing to dilute enriched material and submit to verification.
  • He described a roughly seven-hour meeting more than a month ago with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and pointed to a June memorandum of understanding signed with President Trump at Versailles that was meant to start a 60-day path toward a broader deal.
  • Pezeshkian claimed the Strait of Hormuz had not been closed. Fox notes the denial comes after years of enrichment well beyond typical civilian power levels, the stated rationale for Operation Epic Fury in February.

Commentary

A gulf-port dad still smells diesel on a night dock and knows a seven-month war is supposed to mean a closed file, not a TV denial and a dilute offer after the enrichment already ran hot. He did not pay the levy so a Versailles memo could reset the clock.

Seven months. Seven hours with Khamenei. One 60-day paper. The vinyl chair in that tanker office still holds the honest household that already bought the escort.

Look every working father who still fuels a night dock in the eye and answer this: if enrichment already ran past civilian grade, who still owns the next dilute promise that arrives on television?

Comments

If enrichment already ran past civilian grade, who still owns the next dilute promise on television?
u/border_dad · 5h

Not at all. Dilute offer. Month seven. Keep those three stamps.

u/midwest_vet · 4h

I stood a gate so a war month still meant a file. A TV denial is not a weather report.

u/rule_first · 4h

Baier interview. Versailles MOU. 60-day path. Print the three.

u/tokyo_ally · 3h

Allied escorts still treat hot enrichment as a breach, not a religious footnote.

u/docket_rat · 3h

Seven-hour Khamenei meeting. Hormuz claim. Epic Fury rationale. File the three.

u/night_shift · 2h

I still smell diesel at 2 a.m. I want the next dilute offer empty of a centrifuge.

u/texas_mom · 90m

A seven-month war is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.

u/gulf_watch · 55m

A TV denial next to a Versailles memo is a second border around every honest dock.

u/press_clip · 30m

Fox printed Baier, dilute, and month seven. Argue those nouns.

u/soc_lead · 15m

Hold the verification. Keep the escort. A dilute promise is not a souvenir.

Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.

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