Iran will not abandon its nuclear programme despite “severe” damage caused by US and Israeli air strikes, its foreign minister said.

DUBAI (Reuters) -Reimposing international sanctions on Iran would make the "situation" over its nuclear programme more complex, state media quoted Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi as saying on Tuesday.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz stressed the need to prevent Iran from restoring its nuclear and missile programs and raised the prospect of a renewed war between the two countries.

For weeks, fires and explosions have been reported almost daily in Iran. Officials are investigating what they think is a coordinated campaign.

But the quake, which appeared to leave the fortified plant intact, has renewed agonizing questions about the intersection of natural disasters, military tactics, and the remarkable engineering that characterizes Iran’s subterranean nuclear facilities.

On the eve of the six-month anniversary of his second term at the White House, Trump took to Truth Social, a platform he owns, to issue a strong warning to Tehran.

The United States has assessed that only one of Iran’s three principal nuclear facilities was destroyed in U.S. strikes last month, officials and people familiar with ongoing assessments said, prompting renewed questions about President Donald Trump’s claim that Tehran’s nuclear program had been “totally obliterated.