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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian <\/a>warned on Friday that President Donald Trump\u2019s actions could \u201cset fire\u201d to the region. He also discussed an injury he sustained during this summer\u2019s war with Israel <\/a>and said international nuclear inspectors were welcome to visit his country.
Pezeshkian spoke with \u201cNBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas\u201d during a trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. His comments came after Trump said in his U.N. speech on Tuesday that U.S. attacks in June had hit \u201cIran\u2019s key nuclear facility, totally obliterating everything.\u201d
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The sweeping interview came at a time of great turmoil for the Islamic Republic, a country battered by a recent war with Israel, airstrikes from the United States <\/a>and facing a new round of sanctions over its nuclear program <\/a>which could torpedo the shaky economy.
Asked if he was concerned about more war coming to Iran and an expected meeting between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Pezeshkian struck a defiant tone.
\u201cWe\u2019re not afraid of war. We do not seek war,\u201d he said. \u201cPresident Trump has said that his administration has come to create peace, but the path that they have embarked upon will set fire to the entire region.\u201d
He went on to say that while Iran has \u201cnever started a war\u2026will never be starting any wars.\u201d
\u201cBut whomever attacks us, we will do our utmost to give them the strongest answer. We will certainly augment our capabilities on a daily basis so as to prevent anyone from attacking us,\u201d Pezeshkian added.
The interview was conducted with a government interpreter present and translating in real time, and NBC News reviewed the translation independently.
Pezeshkian, who practiced as a doctor before entering politics, addressed an injury he sustained during the 12-day war with Israel in June, during which senior military leaders, scientists and hundreds of Iranian civilians were killed. Twenty-eight Israelis died during the conflict.
\u201cThey hit us because they were seeking to martyr us like everyone else. We are not afraid of death and martyrdom. We have lived our lives. I have lived my life,\u201d he said.
As for his wounded leg, Pezeshkian said \u201cit wasn\u2019t anything special.\u201d
\u201cWe can just say that it was a hematoma formed in the region of the knee. We dropped the needed liquid and blood, and after that, we got over it,\u201d he added.
Llamas asked about a Washington Post report based on a review of satellite imagery and independent analysis <\/a>indicating increased work at an underground site in Iran that analysts say could be a potential future nuclear facility, and whether the regime was building another nuclear facility. Pezeshkian said nuclear inspectors were welcome to visit his country.
\u201cIf they are telling the truth \u2026 we have come to an agreement, most recently, with the IAEA, they can come and inspect on the ground,\u201d Pezeshkian said, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency, a watchdog body.
\u201cTo put something out based on purported satellite photography it\u2019s not pertinent in order to create frameworks that are not based in reality. In fact, would it not be easier and much more tangible and verifiable to have inspections in person on the ground?\u201d he added.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the highest authority in Iran, limited the scope of what Pezeshkian could accomplish during his time in New York when he said in an address on Tuesday that Iran would not talk directly to the U.S. about its nuclear program and would not negotiate on the issue of ballistic missiles or uranium enrichment.
While Iran maintains that its nuclear program is peaceful, hardline parliamentarians have called for the building of a nuclear weapon. The country now enriches uranium to near-weapons-grade levels \u2014 the only country in the world without a nuclear weapons program known to do so.
On Friday, the United Nations Security Council will vote on a Russian and Chinese resolution to delay reimposing sanctions. But despite this, and the diplomatic push from Pezeshkian and his foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, it appeared that the penalties would be reimposed after the Saturday deadline.
Babak Dehghanpisheh is an NBC News Digital international editor based in New York.
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