Iran Atomic Energy Chief Says Tehran Will Never Give Up Uranium Enrichment

This is a rhetorical hardening rather than a technical disclosure: Eslami frames enrichment as an industrial necessity, not a bargaining chip, which narrows the space for any future negotiation to focus on safeguards and transparency instead of capacity itself. The practical read-through is for oil and shipping risk premia, which trade on perceived escalation odds rather than on statements alone. Whether Tehran's posture is matched by changes in monitoring access or inspection cooperation is the open question; absent that, the market impact is likely to stay confined to headline-driven volatility.