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Exclusive: Iran Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Worrying news from Iran, where the UN’s nuclear watchdog has found near bomb-grade levels of uranium. CNN has seen a restricted report which found uranium particles enriched to almost 84% - very close to the 90% needed to make a nuclear bomb. It comes amid alarming allegations of human rights violations by the regime against protesters, and shocking accounts of torture and sexual assault at the hands of the Revolutionary Guards. The country's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian is in Geneva this week speaking at the UN Human Rights Council. In a rare interview since the death of Mahsa Aminia rocked the country, he sat down with Christiane for a challenging conversation.  Also on today's show: Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, President, Missing Children Europe; Jeh Johnson, Former US Homeland Security Secretary  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

In our religious and Islamic texts, human rights is one of the most fundamental issues.

0:15.0

Iran and the West at a turning point, and I get an exclusive interview with the foreign minister

0:21.0

on the global condemnation over Iran's human rights and latest fears that

0:26.5

the country could be even closer to nuclear breakout.

0:30.3

Then...

0:31.3

And so these children are essentially being held hostage?

0:33.0

Yes.

0:34.0

We speak about Russia's scheme to forcibly kidnap and adopt thousands of minors from Ukraine

0:41.0

with the president of Missing Children Europe and

0:44.8

the smugglers exacerbate the message.

0:47.8

They're like used car dealers to say that the sale is going to expire at the

0:52.4

end of the week. We've got to go now.

0:54.4

So there's a bit of a feeding frenzy.

0:56.7

The crisis at America's southern border.

0:59.6

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jay Johnson joins Michelle Martin. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiane. I'm on poor in London. Worrying news from

1:25.1

Iran where the UN's nuclear watchdog has found near bomb-grade levels of uranium at a nuclear facility.

1:32.1

CNN has seen a restricted report which found

1:34.9

uranium particles enriched to almost 84%, which is very close to the 90%

1:40.7

needed to make a nuclear bomb.

1:43.0

And it comes amid alarming allegations

1:45.4

of human rights violations by the regime against protesters,

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