Karimi Qudousi: Experts have told us that we need "half a day" to produce 90% uranium, which is the main fuel for a nuclear warhead.
Iranian military commanders and high-ranking officials have warned they could change their approach in d…
Karimi Qudousi: Experts have told us that we need "half a day" to produce 90% uranium, which is the main fuel for a nuclear warhead.
Iranian military commanders and high-ranking officials have warned they could change their approach in developing the country’s nuclear programme after increasing tensions with Israel, implicitly announcing their readiness to take it into a military phase.
Before the recent direct military confrontation with Israel, Iran had always insisted that its nuclear programme solely had peaceful goals. This stance dramatically changed in recent weeks.
Javad Karimi Qudousi, a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, on Monday implicitly claimed that Iran was only one week away from its first nuclear weapon test.
The lawmaker wrote on X: "If the order is issued, it will be one week before the first test."
Karimi Qudousi did not mention Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but such an order would come from supreme leader who has a final say in all matters in Iran.
On Tuesday, in two videos posted on X, he stressed that the targets of Iran’s potential military nuclear programme would not only be Israel but also European countries supporting Tel Aviv.
Moreover, hours after the Israeli attack on an air force base in Isfahan last Friday, Ahmad Haqtalab, the commander of the Nuclear Centers Protection and Security Corps, suggested the same idea.
"It is possible and conceivable to revise the nuclear doctrine and policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran and deviate from previous considerations," he was quoted as saying.
On Monday, the Javan daily, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), highlighted Haqtalab’s remarks, adding "Israel has taken this threat seriously and retreated from their [aggressive] stances.”
