Fars News Agency quoted Rasoul Sanaeirad, political affairs advisor in the Iranian Supreme Leader’s office Ali KhameneiHe said: “Some (Iranian) politicians raised the possibility of changing nuclear strategic policies, because striking the country’s energy centers would have an impact on the equations during and after the war.”
Sanai considered that targeting Israel For nuclear facilities, it would be “a blow to regional and international red lines.”
And fired Iran On October 1, about 200 ballistic missiles targeted Israel, in an attack that Tehran put as revenge for the killing of Ismail Haniyehmovement leader agitationIn 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. For Hezbollah Lebanese Hassan Nasrallah And an officer in Iranian Revolutionary Guard In a raid on Southern suburb For 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
Iranian lawmakers on Wednesday demanded ownership of Tehran For a nuclear weaponRepresentative Hassan Ali Khalqi Amiri said, “Neither international organizations, nor 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 is the way to achieve nuclear deterrence,” as reported. Agence France-Presse.
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 was presented to Parliament aimed at “expanding the nuclear industry,” without further details.
Red line
After the recent Israeli threats, the US President warned Joe Biden His ally from any attempt to target Iranian nuclear facilitiesHe also stressed his rejection of any strikes on oil installations.
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.
An amendment decision remains Nuclear doctrine It is in the hands of the leader, 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 the Iranian president called Masoud Bazeshkian At the United Nations General Assembly in September to “a world free of nuclear weapons and a Middle East free of nuclear weapons.” 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 it The nuclear agreement Which was concluded in 2015 with the aim of easing US sanctions that burden the Iranian economy.
This agreement was supposed to provide a framework for Iran’s atomic activities in exchange for lifting the international sanctions imposed on it, but it collapsed after the unilateral American withdrawal from it by a decision of the 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.
