Following Israel’s retaliatory strikes on Iranian air defense systems and missile production facilities, the mullahs’ regime reserves the right to “respond at the appropriate time.” As the international community calls for de-escalation, an adviser to Iran’s spiritual leader is now promising a change in the country’s nuclear doctrine.
This step would be conceivable if Iran were faced with an existential threat, Kamel Kharrazi told the pro-Iranian Lebanese broadcaster Al-Mayadeen on Friday. “We now have the technological capacity to produce nuclear weapons. The only thing standing in our way is a fatwa from our religious leader,” Kharrazi said. A fatwa is a sharia-based legal opinion issued by one person on a specific issue, both private and state law. A fatwa is legally binding.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei first issued an oral fatwa against the production of nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction in 2003. Two years later, this “ban” was also registered by the Iranian government with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA/IAEA).
In recent years, several generals and senior government officials have initiated the debate about changing the fatwa. Today, as was the case then, it can also be pure rhetoric aimed at intimidating the regime’s enemies. In addition to the fatwa on nuclear weapons, the ayatollah’s adviser also mentioned a possible increase in the range of ballistic missiles.
American media: Iran can attack through Iraq
Meanwhile, the American news site Axios reported a new Iranian attack on Israel, possibly planned before the US presidential elections on November 5. It was said that drones and ballistic missiles could take off from Iraq this time.
Iran will definitely respond to the Israeli attack, deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Ali Fadavi said in an interview, according to a report by Mehr News Agency. “For more than 40 years, we have not left any aggression unanswered.” The American television channel CNN quoted a person familiar with the deliberations in Tehran: “The response of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the aggression of the Zionist regime will be.” be final and painful.”
Source: Krone
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