A senator from Iran recently claimed that it had nuclear weapons in possession of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iranian leaders have threatened to use the country’s say that it has the capability to produce nuclear weapons and that it might choose to do so if its nuclear facilities are attacked, according to the lawmaker.
Fox News reported that Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, who was d- elected in March to Iran’s legislature, told Rouydad 24, an Persian- based media outlet, on Friday that Iran had “achieved atomic weapons”.
” In my opinion, we have achieved nuclear arms, but we do not declare it”, Ardestani reportedly said. It refers to our stated scheme of possessing nuclear weapons as being within the JCPOA.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA ), which was signed in 2018 amid concerns that Iran’s nuclear program could not be effectively stopped from progressing, is what former US President Donald Trump said. Iran was given financial punishment by the JCPOA in exchange for assurances that it would not develop nuclear weapons within a certain time frame.
Iran’s continued use of nuclear weapons was supported by Ardestani, who stated that the country’s pursuit of nuclear weapons was based on the idea that” Iran may include nuclear weapons when it is in conflict with America and Israel, and that is why.”
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It is normal for the isolation method to mandate that Iran possess nuclear weapons in a world where Russia has attacked Ukraine and Israel has attacked Gaza, according to Ardestani. ” But, whether Iran declares it is another problem”.
Plan experts have expressed doubts about Iran’s nuclear weapons program despite the Egyptian parliament member’s claim that it has already acquired nuclear weapons. Jason Brodsky, the policy director for United Against a Nuclear Iran, a U. S. based non- profit advocacy organization, told Fox News,” Ardestani is just a member of parliament, and he’s not in the internal core of the regime’s atomic decision- making circle, but while his comments are fascinating, I think they have to be weighed effectively given his access and standing”.
However, two days before Ardestani’s troubling nuclear weapon claim, Kamal Kharrazi, the president of the Iranian Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, said that he had previously announced Iran had both the “absorptive capacity and the capability” to develop a nuclear bomb two years ago.
Kharrazi warned,” Iran still has that capability, but we have not made the decision to produce a nuclear bomb. However, if the Iranian interests are threatened in this manner, we may change this doctrine”.
