Iran’s supreme leader may decide that the only way ahead for the regime, which is despised by its own citizens and vulnerable to Israeli attack, is nuclear weapons.
Already a subscriber?When an Israeli bomb killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, last week, it did not just decapitate a fearsome militia that has driven some 60,000 Israelis from their homes with frequent rocket attacks. It also dealt a blow to Iran’s “axis of resistance”, a constellation of proxy forces that Iran has for decades used to attack Israel and Western interests in the Middle East.
In recent days, amid Israeli strikes on Hamas, Hezbollah and militants backed by Iran in Yemen, Iranian officials have been insinuating that Israel’s belligerence may induce Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Others have suggested that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, might rescind an earlier fatwa, or religious edict,. The regime has been expanding the number and sophistication of centrifuges it uses to purify uranium. It now has a big stockpile of near-weapons-grade material.
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