Iran International Newsroom – May 10, 2024
Iran might already possess a nuclear weapon, an insider politician in Tehran said on Friday, after remarks by a senior foreign policy figure the day before about a possible change in nuclear policy.
Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, re-elected to parliament in March, conveyed to the Rouydad 24 website his belief that Iran’s decision to risk attacking Israel in April stemmed from its possession of nuclear weapons.
Moreover, he drew attention to remarks by Kamal Kharrazi, senior foreign policy advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday, who said that Tehran will change its nuclear doctrine if Israel attacks its atomic facilities. For years, the Islamic Republic has insisted that its nuclear program is entirely peaceful, despite enriching uranium to 60-percent purity, which can only have a weaponization purpose.
“In my opinion, we have achieved nuclear weapons, but we do not announce it. It means our policy is to possess nuclear bombs, but our declared policy is currently within the framework of the JCPOA. The reason is that when countries want to confront others, their capabilities must be compatible, and Iran’s compatibility with America and Israel means that Iran must have nuclear weapons,” Ardestani was quoted as saying.
Clearly putting Iran in the same trench as Russia, Ardestani added, “In a climate where Russia has attacked Ukraine and Israel has attacked Gaza, and Iran is a staunch supporter of the Resistance Front, it is natural for the containment system to require that Iran possess nuclear bombs. However, whether Iran declares it is another matter.”
The conservative politician, hailing from Isfahan Province, representing a district close to the Natanz nuclear facility, is a trusted regime figure, because he was allowed to run and win in the tightly orchestrated March parliamentary elections.
Ardestani, 63, has served in the government in various capacities since his youth from the early 1980s, and was a close ally of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It is not clear if he is a member of the hardliner Paydari party, dominating the newly elected parliament, but he also served a four-year term from 2012-2016 as an Ahmadinejad supporter. He is known as a foreign policy expert who managed foreign students sent abroad by the government.
On Thursday, Kamal Kharrazi was quoted by the semi official ISNA news website as saying, “If they [Israel] dare to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, our level of deterrence will change. We have experienced deterrence at the conventional level so far. If they intend to strike Iran’s nuclear capabilities, naturally, it could lead to a change in Iran’s nuclear doctrine.”
Kharrazi’s statement seemed designed to be a deterrence to any Israeli plans to attack its nuclear facilities. Although he also threatened a change of doctrine if Iran’s existence is threatened, any Israeli attack will most likely be aimed at valuable strategic targets, not at obliterating Iran. It is possible that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s advisor was referring to possible Israeli threats against the regime and its leaders, not the existence of Iran as a country.
On April 18, a senior IRGC commander had also warned that Tehran could change its nuclear policies if Israel continues to threaten to attack Iran’s nuclear sites.
“If the fake Zionist regime wants to use the threat of attacking nuclear sites to put pressure on Iran, it is possible and conceivable for the Islamic Republic to revise its nuclear doctrine and policies, and deviate from its past declared considerations,” said Ahmad Haghtalab, who oversees the security of Iran’s nuclear sites.
“Iran might already possess a nuclear weapon, an insider politician in Tehran said on Friday, after remarks by a senior foreign policy figure the day before about a possible change in nuclear policy.
Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, re-elected to parliament in March, conveyed to the Rouydad 24 website his belief that Iran’s decision to risk attacking Israel in April stemmed from its possession of nuclear weapons.”
There is a famous depiction of an old woman who may be construed as a young woman or vice versa. When one sees one or the other, knowledge of the fact allows one then to struggle to see its counterpart.
https://presearch.com/images?q=Old%20Lady%20or%20Young%20Woman%3F#view
In so far as Iran’s attack may have been genuine we might infer that the attack was based on the fact that no one has nukes. Constrained by the worldview of “nukes existing”, we can of course believe something else.
When I was young and the lights were turned off, I sometimes imagined my nearby furniture with clothes and objects resembled hideous creatures. I knew this wasn’t so, yet I observed this primeval fear inside myself of shapes and forms that in daylight were simply common objects. I have tried very hard to extend the insight of a five year old child with less success than I hoped in these comments sections….
For those of you still within Plato’s cave, I want to suggest to you that you need to watch out for the nighttime silhouette of your folded clothes on your bedside chair is actually a wolf waiting to strike the moment you go to sleep…
LOL..
They’ve kept this saga on the boil for thirty odd years…always in the ‘news’, lots of dollars slushing around, always an excuse for some political theatre, for whichever sexual deviant is incumbent in the shite house…to be doing something or other..which usually involves ‘sanctions’..which incidentally are always good for Wall Street..
The binary… whether that’s ‘jewes’ V mullahs…Sauds V Mullahs..Mullahs V Isis..but always the ahem..corporate West…holding the cards…and running the charades…
The best enemies money can buy…ask Hank Kissinger next time you’re in Hell…
Hi,
I’m new here and I’m curious about the crazy commie crank nicox.What’s his story?
I really want to know.
oh yeah…sort of like how Iraq possessed WMDs. Nonetheless, this bogus pretext will still be used to ignite WWIII. Like Crowley remarked on here before–all these muslim/arab nation-states are governed by Donmeh.
Let’s hope they do.
Alice = ADL commie agent
Never trust anyone who is anti-Nico X.
Sweet. Fry the judenfilth.
@ Simon…
It seems likely…that reasons have to be found…as you say…If for example the ‘threats’ can’t be backed up..which they obviously can’t, or that they no longer carry the Gravitas they once did…windbags having worn them out…and people examining the ‘claims’.
…narratives will be created..because this is the post truth world..
I thought this with the Peepee Escobar guff.. you know… Russians shot down an Isreally plane with nooks etc etc… which is evidently horseshit…cooked up by spooks…to keep the supporters rallying around their teams..
Now we possibly, maybe, it’s likely, have a Nuclear Iran to contend with…that has nooks…which will stop those blasted joos using the ones they supposedly have…
The Samson Option…it sounds like a hollyweird movie..that’s because it is one…(Arnon Milchan)…
alice–
he’s one hepcat
‘Alice on May 16, 2024 at 11:46 am
Hi,
I’m new here and I’m curious about the crazy commie crank nicox.What’s his story?
I really want to know.’
Same here – as in I really want to know, I’m not new here.
I LIKE Nico X and all the little Xs though, even though they put themselves across as uber-satanic and never say anything remotely likeable. They never respond to any criticism or comments or any ANYTHING – you might ask them to post links to back up their repeated assertion, but they will ignore THAT and just keep posting it up under different names anyway.
Everybody knows and says that it is the same person using lots of different names, because the style and the no-capitals typography never changes- but they never pay heed, and just keep on doing it-
I would miss them- I call them Them, this little cluster of Xs, some with male names, some with female names – if they went off somewhere with their ‘now you know’ –
Although goodness knows what they might get up to if they found themselves outside of the confines of the comments threads-
Perhaps they are a Demonic Little Entity a White Magician has confined here with spells and sigils to keep them out of Greater Harm’s Way –
Mr. Putin, one of the most reliable sources of information on this planet, himself has publicly stated that Iran posssesses nuclear weapons.
Nukes??
Yeah..whatever..
……lets see proof of a REAL ACTUAL NUKE
only been waiting for 80+ years