Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has said that it would be easy to verify that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons, state TV announced on Thursday, a day after US President Donald Trump said that he would like to have a verified nuclear peace agreement with Tehran, Reuters has reported

Iran is not seeking a nuclear weapon as the mass killing of innocent people is prohibited in the Islamic Republic’s doctrine, said Pezeshkian in a televised meeting with foreign ambassadors in Tehran. “Verifying [our nuclear programme] is an easy task, they have come and verified every time they wanted to do so and they can come and verify a hundred more times,” added the Iranian president.

Trump said on Wednesday that he would like to have a verified nuclear peace agreement with Iran. During his previous term in office in 2018, Trump pulled the United States out of Tehran’s 2015 nuclear pact with world powers — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — and reimposed sanctions that have crippled the country’s economy. The harsh measures prompted Tehran to violate the pact’s nuclear limitations.

Pezeshkian’s comments come a day after a senior Iranian official told Reuters that Iran is ready to give US diplomacy another chance to resolve disputes.