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A senior Iranian foreign policy official said on Friday that Iran could build a nuclear weapon at any time if “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wishes it so – and it might soon in the event of an “existential threat” emerging.
“If the Islamic Republic of Iran faces an existential threat, we will inevitably change the policy of our military doctrine ,” Kharrazi said, according to the Iranian state outlet. “We now have the necessary capability to produce weapons, and the only obstacle is the Leader’s fatwa that prohibits the production of nuclear weapons.
“Unfortunately, we still see the West, including European countries and the United States, continue to support such a brutal and criminal entity and defend its actions by funding it and sending weapons,” Kharrazi said. While Khamenei, President Masoud Pezeshkian, and the small circle of elites ruling Iran often insist they are not interested in developing a nuclear weapon, Kharrazi is far from the first to suggest that Tehran is ready to build one imminently. In May, lawmaker Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani“In my opinion, we have achieved nuclear weapons, but we do not announce it. It means our policy is to possess nuclear bombs, but our declared policy is currently within the framework of the JCPOA,” Ardestani.
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