Fars News Agency quoted Rasoul Sanaei Rad, political affairs advisor in the office of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as saying: “Some (Iranian) politicians raised the possibility of changing nuclear strategic policies, because striking the country’s energy centers will have an impact on the equations during and after the war.” “.
Sanai considered that Israel’s targeting of nuclear facilities would be a “blow on regional and international red lines.”
On October 1, Iran launched about 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, in an attack that Tehran described as revenge for the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Hamas movement, in a bombing that targeted him in Tehran and Israel was accused of being behind it, as well as for Israel’s assassination of the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. And an Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer in a raid on the southern suburb of Beirut.
Following this Iranian missile bombardment, the second of its kind in less than six months, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant vowed to launch a “deadly, precise, and surprising” attack against Iran.
In April, Iran launched, for the first time in its history, a direct military attack on Israel in response to an air strike that destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, and Tehran held the Hebrew state responsible.
Iranian nuclear deterrence
On Wednesday, Iranian representatives demanded that Tehran possess a nuclear weapon, as Representative Hassan Ali Khalqi Amiri said, “Neither international organizations, European countries, nor America can control Israel, which commits crimes as it pleases,” while his colleague Mohammad Reza Sabbaghian believed that “Iran’s possession of atomic weapons It is the way to achieve nuclear deterrence,” Agence France-Presse reported.
Kamal Kharazi, Khamenei’s advisor, said that Iran “could reconsider its nuclear doctrine if Israel dared to threaten Iran with a nuclear weapon.”
According to local media, a draft law aimed at “expanding the nuclear industry” was presented to Parliament, without further details.
Red line
After the recent Israeli threats, US President Joe Biden warned his ally against any attempt to target Iranian nuclear facilities, stressing his rejection of any strikes on oil facilities.
Tehran stressed that attacking its infrastructure would provoke a “stronger response,” and an Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer warned that any strike on nuclear sites or energy facilities would constitute a crossing of a “red line.”
According to Agence France-Presse, Iranian political analyst Maziar Khosravi said, the representatives’ message is “rather a strong message directed to Israel’s Western supporters” to “try to influence” it.
The decision to amend the nuclear doctrine remains in the hands of the Leader and not the representatives, according to Khosravi, who considers that any change is unlikely in the short term.
But Khosravi believes that “if Israel attacks the nuclear facilities, Iran will likely withdraw” from the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Iran has repeatedly stated that it does not want to possess an atomic bomb, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called at the UN General Assembly in September for “a world free of nuclear weapons and a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction.”
Pezeshkian also confirmed in an interview with the American CNN news network that “Iran does not seek to possess a nuclear bomb.”
Pezeshkian, who has been in power since last July, is seeking to revive the nuclear agreement concluded in 2015 with the aim of easing the US sanctions that are burdening the Iranian economy.
This agreement was supposed to provide a framework for Iran’s atomic activities in exchange for lifting international sanctions imposed on it, but it collapsed after the unilateral American withdrawal from it by decision of former Republican President Donald Trump in 2018.
Since the failure of the agreement, the Iranian nuclear program has witnessed significant progress, according to many reports.
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