Image Credit: SYLVIE HUSSON,NALINI LEPETIT-CHELLA,SABRINA BLANCHARD / Contributor / Getty Two unnamed sources within Iran have said that the U.S./Israeli attack has deepened Tehran’s interest in seeking nuclear weapons. This is exactly what Russian President Vladimir Putin warned would happen at the outset of the conflict.
After the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Revolutionary Guards have taken dominant control over Islamic Republic, and with that “hardline views on Iran’s nuclear approach are in the ascendant.”
Reuters detailed Iran’s increased interest of atomic ambitions:
The idea of quitting the NPT – something hardliners have previously threatened – has been increasingly aired on state media along with the idea – once taboo in public – that Iran should go outright for the bomb.
Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with the Guards, on Thursday published an article saying Iran should withdraw from the NPT as soon as possible while sticking with a civilian nuclear programme.
Hardline politician Mohammad Javad Larijani, brother of senior official Ali Larijani who was killed in a strike this month, was quoted by state media this week urging Iran to suspend its membership of the NPT.
“The NPT should be suspended. We should form a committee to assess whether the NPT is of any use to us at all. If it proves useful, we will return to it. If not, they can keep it,” he said.
Earlier in the month, state television aired a segment with conservative commentator Nasser Torabi in which he said the Iranian public demanded: “We need to act in order to build a nuclear weapon. Either we build it or we acquire it.”
Muslims are permitted to lie to non-Muslims, making Khamenei’s repeated claims that Iran was not seeking the bomb questionable at best.
Tehran claimed “Khamenei had banned nuclear arms as forbidden in Islam and citing its membership of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.” The Islamic Republic attested its atomic ambitions only involved peaceful nuclear technology, such as energy production.
The West long believed Tehran was developing nuclear weapons however.
In 2024 a UN weapons inspector warned that Iran already had nuclear weapons.
A 2009 Brookings Institute white paper detailed the various paths the U.S. could take to prohibit Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon, and the benefits and risks of each course of action. Nearly everything witnessed so far in the current Iran war was laid out in this 2009 document.
Alex Jones has warned of Iran’s nuclear capabilities for decades, explaining the nuclear false flag risk associated with it, the U.S. trap of a war with Iran and how Israel waging war on Iran could lead to WWIII.
Russia has been supplying Iran with conventional weapons throughout the month-long conflict and the country’s former president Dmitriy Medvedev has warned that other nations may give Iran nuclear weapons.
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