Iran may revise its “nuclear doctrine” following Israeli threats, Revolutionary Guards Corps commander in charge of nuclear security Ahmad Hagdalab said, according to the Tasnim news agency, raising questions about its steadfast claim. Tehran that the Iranian nuclear program has no military purposes.
“The Zionist regime’s threats against Iran’s nuclear facilities make it possible to revise our nuclear doctrine and override our previous thoughts,” the Iranian commander said, according to Tasnim.
“If the Zionist regime wants to take action against our nuclear centers and facilities, it is certain and categorical that we will respond with advanced missiles against its own nuclear facilities,” Hagdalab said.
Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say on Tehran’s nuclear program, which the West suspects has military purposes.
In 2021, the then-intelligence minister said Western pressure would push Tehran to pursue nuclear weapons, the development of which Khamenei has banned in a fatwa in the early 2000s.
“The development and stockpiling of nuclear bombs is wrong and their use is haram (forbidden by Islamic law) … Although we have nuclear technology, Iran has resolutely avoided it,” Khamenei reiterated in 2019.
Iran’s foreign ministry did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
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