Iran War Updates: Iran Vows Not To Part With ‘A Single Particle Of Enriched Nuclear Material’ As Standoff Continues

An adviser to Iran’s supreme leader said Wednesday that the United States and Europe “have become aware of the repercussions” of the war jointly launched more than eight months ago by the United States and Israel.

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“Responsibility and consequences for such actions will extend to all participants, regardless of geographic boundaries,” Mokhber said.

He did not mention specific repercussions, but France blamed Iran for the operation. nationwide cyberattacks that hit the commercial refrigeration units of hundreds of grocery stores in October, spoiling thousands of tons of food and causing at least 20 fires, according to French prosecutors.

In September, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Iran “played a role” in a security incident near an air base in England that had been used by U.S. forces to launch strikes against Iran.

Iran-linked groups have also been accused of support a series of sabotage attacks in the UK and Europe, many of which target Jewish communities.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Wednesday that two more oil tankers hit sea mines and caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz, the latest in Iranian forces’ daily claims of attacks on commercial vessels in and around the strategic waterway.

“Two oil tankers that attempted to secretly leave the Strait of Hormuz last night via an unauthorized and dangerous route, under the protection of fighter jets belonging to the aggressive and pillaging US military, hit naval mines and suffered massive explosions,” the IRGC said in a statement.

Iran has for months attacked ships it accuses of trying to transit the waterway without its permission, using southern shipping lanes that the U.S. military says are safe and open. The US military, meanwhile, has also struck oil tankers it accuses of violating its blockade of Iranian ports.

The IRGC said Tuesday that at least two tankers caught fire after explosions in the strait in similar circumstances, and the British Navy’s Maritime Commercial Operations Center said an oil tanker reported being hit by a projectile in the strait on Tuesday evening.

The war between the United States and Iran will cost Gulf countries more than $200 billion in damages and economic losses could reach nearly four times that amount by 2030, insurer Allianz Trade said on Wednesday.

Gulf countries that hosted U.S. forces came under daily attack in the early weeks of the war, as Iran responded to U.S. and Israeli attacks.

“Physical damage in the region is estimated at just over $200 billion, mainly concentrated in economies blocked in Hormuz, particularly in energy infrastructure,” the insurer said in a report.

More than 80 energy facilities were hit during the war, mainly in Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, according to the report, and a third of them were “severely damaged.”

Beyond the material damage caused to energy infrastructure, the war affected other sectors such as tourism and real estate, whose growth will slow down over the years.

“The total cost of the war for the GCC is expected to reach $790 billion, a cumulative deviation of 5.9% of GDP from the pre-war trend through 2030,” the report said.

“This reflects the cumulative loss of economic output over the period 2026-30, the difference between what the region was projected to produce under its pre-war growth trend and what it is now projected to produce post-war,” he said.

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A senior Iranian security official insisted Wednesday that Tehran would not allow the removal of any of its enriched nuclear materials.

Iranian state broadcaster IRIB quoted Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei as saying Tehran “will not remove a single particle of enriched nuclear material from the country.”

The White House has argued that the war against Iran was necessary to prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining nuclear weapons, something the regime has always denied trying to do.

The Trump administration has been pushing for a final peace deal that would involve Iran agreeing to give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium and accept limits on its nuclear program overall.

The United States wants a first ceasefire agreement to include negotiations on the nuclear issue, but Tehran has refused this precondition, insisting that such discussions can only take place once fighting has officially stopped – on all fronts, including in Lebanon.

On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reiterated the White House’s position on Iran’s nuclear program, telling reporters that “the crazy Islamists in Tehran will never have nuclear weapons.”

Hours after Iran’s Foreign Ministry officially denied responsibility for the hacking of grocery store refrigerators across the country, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi added insult to injury.

“Incapable of managing the refrigerators and even less of responding to the grievances of its population, the French government places the responsibility for its failures on others,” Araghchi wrote on X.

Araghchi also added that Iran was not using its power to support “the massacres in Gaza or the bombing of schools and hospitals.”

On Monday, Paris prosecutors said investigators had evidence that Iran was behind the Oct. 11 hack, which dramatically increased the temperature of refrigerators, spoiled tons of food and caused around 20 fires. Around 700 supermarkets across the country were targeted, the prosecution said.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry, in its official statement on Tuesday, said it “strongly rejects the baseless accusations made by the French government against Iran regarding alleged involvement in sabotage activities in France.”