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Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned on November 1 that the Islamic Republic may review its nuclear doctrine if Tehran is exposed to an “existential threat.”
Khamenei banned the development of nuclear weapons in a public fatwa [a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law] in 2003.
In 2019, he reaffirmed the same stance, saying: “Building and stockpiling nuclear bombs is wrong and using it is haram [religiously forbidden]… Although we have nuclear technology, Iran has firmly avoided it.”
“We now have the technical capabilities necessary to produce nuclear weapons… Only the supreme leader’s fatwa currently prohibits it,” Kharrazi said in an interview with Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen TV.
Kharrazi’s warning came amid heightened tensions with Israel, who launched an attack against Iranian territory on October 26.
Several Iranian military targets, including air defenses and missile sites, were hit during the attack, which also claimed the lives of four officers. The attack was in itself a response to a large-scale ballistic missile strike launched by Tehran against Israel on October 1.
Kharrazi reiterated during his interview with Al-Mayadeen that Iran will respond to the Israeli attack at the appropriate time and manner, adding that Tehran was also likely to increase the range of its ballistic missiles.
“We are ready for war but we do not want to escalate because we have currently proven our ability to deter from doing so,” the senior official said, according to a translation of the interview from The Telegraph.
“The matter is up to the Israelis, if they really want to continue, we will respond to them. Our missile capabilities are clear to everyone and everyone believes in them, and we have proven that during our operations,” he added.
On October 31, the United States-based Axios news site reported, citing two Israeli sources, that Israeli intelligence was preparing for an attack in the coming days involving a large number of ballistic missiles and suicide drones launched by Iran allies in Iraq.
Israel’s Kan also reported on November 1 that Israel has upped its security measures at a sensitive security facility. According to the public broadcaster, Israel was continuing to hold assessments on the expected scale and timing of the Iranian attack in light of next week’s U.S. presidential elections.
Israeli officials believe that Tehan will indeed respond, whether directly or through its allies in Iraq and Yemen, Kan reported.
To defend Israel, the U.S. The Department of Defense announced on November 1 that it will be deploying additional ballistic missile defense destroyers, fighter squadrons, tanker aircraft, and several B-52 long-range strike bombers to the Middle East.
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it should and then vipe the jews off the map!
not today. and never will be.
the kidnappings are not just cause for war but an excuse for an unjust battle against all religious fundamentalists who happen to have black gold using brainwashed pro -zionist americans to do the dying and financing.