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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.
…das geht ganz schnell, denken sie an die geschichte 😉
…it happens very quickly, remember the history 😉
it will happen and no one can stop it shlomo 😂
hey shlomo, your mother is the goat you and everybody else fucks!!!
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.
looks like their head of state has finally got the memo about iran having the bomb, only that will deter israel from its aggression, ask kim in north korea if nukes deter or not.
talmudistan is a lunatic genocidal psychopathic regime quite openly and brazenly perpetrating atrocities of a nazi character on a nazi scale. it has been given a blank cheque of impunity by the united snakes and its western vassals, who have enabled and consistently excused such crimes. there is no reason to believe they would baulk at any zio use of nuclear weapons. iran, like any other country in the crosshairs of western aggression, needs a nuclear deterrent..
this is the lesson which north korea drew from iraq, libya, syria, afghanistan, and so many other places. and it is now safe from us aggression. iran is perfectly capable of following the same path and it will almost certainly do so in the very near future. this is a matter of necessity and national survival. the zio regime has even threatened to use nuclear weapons in gaza. religious and moral qualms are all very commendable, but as admiral fisher said in ww1, in war moderation is an imbecilty.
se volete salvarvi fatelo subito e se attuate siate precisi e non fateli rialzare o sarà peggio per voi. saluti
if israel dies in nuclear hellfire, so will iran. attacking israel is a really bad idea, so, you should do that, like, never times. ever.
the possibility of mutual assured destruction brings balance and peace. so it would be as absurd and suicidal for iran to want to destroy israel as it would be for israel to want to destroy iran.