NEW YORK, July 7. /TASS/. The Iranian government is ready to negotiate oversight measures for Tehran’s nuclear program, the country’s President Masoud Pezeshkian told US journalist Tucker Carlson in an interview.

"In order to answer your question with regards to the surveillance or the supervision over our nuclear program, I would like to say that we are ready to hold talks over it. We have never been the party that has run away from verification. We stand ready to have these supervisions," the president said when asked to comment on the suspension of cooperation between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

"But unfortunately, as the result of the United States unlawful attacks against our nuclear centers and installations, many of the pieces of equipment and the facilities there have been severely damaged. Therefore, we don’t have any access to them," Pezeshkian stated.

According to him, the introduction of oversight measures requires a prior assessment of the damage, as well as time.

"I would like to tell you that we were, yes, somehow pessimistic about the activities of the IAEA, because somehow we realized that Israel could get information from the inspections which were carried out by the IAEA, but it never prevented the IAEA from carrying out their activities inside Iran, and they had full access to supervise and to have surveillance over our nuclear facilities," the president added. He also mentioned a "lack of trust" sparked by the latest IAEA report on Iran, which, in Pezeshkian’s view, was also used to justify Israel’s aggression.

On July 2, he signed a law suspending cooperation between Tehran and the IAEA. The law took effect and became legally binding from the day it was signed by the president.

Overnight into June 13, Israel launched a military operation against Iran. Less than 24 hours later, Tehran retaliated. Nine days later, in the early hours of June 22, US jets targeted three Iranian nuclear sites, effectively entering the conflict. The following evening, Tehran carried out a missile strike on Al Udeid, the largest US military base in the region, located in Qatar. According to US officials, there were no casualties or significant damage. US President Donald Trump later announced that Israel and Iran had agreed to a complete ceasefire. The truce took effect on June 24.