Iran warns that it may review the civilian use of its nuclear doctrine due to threats from Israel

Will could review its “nuclear doctrine” – which until now dictated an exclusively civilian use of this energy – if Israel threatens to attack its atomic centers, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard warned this Thursday in the midst of an escalation between the two countries.

“If the fake Zionist regime wants to use the threat of attacks against our nuclear centers as a method to pressure Iran, it is possible that Iran will review its nuclear doctrine and policy and leave previous considerations behind,” warned General Ahmad Haghtalab. commander of the Revolutionary Guard responsible for safeguarding Iranian atomic facilities, Mehr agency reported.

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Haghtalab also warned that Tehran will attack Israeli nuclear facilities in retaliation for a possible similar attack by Israel.

“If the Zionist regime takes action against our nuclear facilities and centers, they will certainly face our reaction and their nuclear facilities will be attacked,” he said.

The Iranian military command guaranteed that the “nuclear facilities of the Zionist enemy were identified”.

Iran has so far ensured that its nuclear program has an exclusively civilian objective and even Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, even issued a fatwa – religious decision – condemning atomic weapons.

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Tehran closed its nuclear facilities on Sunday “for security reasons” in the face of possible Israeli retaliation following the Iranian attack on Israel on Saturday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) then reported.

The atomic program Iranian It has made much progress in recent years after the collapse of the nuclear deal signed in 2015, even though the country does not have nuclear weapons.

According to the most recent IAEA report, published last February in Vienna, Iran produces highly enriched uranium, up to 60%, a material that has almost no civilian uses, but has military uses.

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Will launched a missile and drone attack against Israel last Saturday, in retaliation for the bomb attack against the Iranian consulate in Damascus, on April 1, in which seven members of the Revolutionary Guard died.

Israel stated that it will respond to the Iranian attack, to which Tehran raised the tone of its warnings and, in turn, assured that it will take measures against possible Israeli retaliation.

Source: Elcomercio

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