Iran will not retaliate further against the United States’s strikes on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program or pursue nuclear “militarization,” according to one of the country’s top

U.N. nuclear inspectors on Friday departed from Iran two days after the Middle Eastern nation suspended cooperation with the program and weeks after the United States and Israel bombed nuclear sites.

A reactor in Tehran is a monument to the U.S. relationship with Iran when the country was led by a secular, pro-Western monarch.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Friday its inspectors have departed Tehran and arrived safely to Vienna after Iran suspended cooperation in the wake of attacks on its nuclear program by Israel and the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Iran had not agreed to inspections of its nuclear program or to give up enriching uranium. He told reporters aboard Air Force One that he believed Tehran's nuclear program had been set back permanently although Iran could restart it at a different location.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he dared Iran to “go ahead” with a counterattack in response to last month’s United States airstrikes that destroyed three Iranian nuclear sites. “They called me to tell me they have to take a shot at us.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Iran wants to speak to the United States, and that he would meet with representatives of the country "if necessary."