From left to right : Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati (President of the Assembly of Experts, the 86 religious sages who preside over Iran) ; Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani (Chief of the Islamic Judiciary) ; Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Supreme Leader of Iran) ; Cheikh Hassan Rohani (President of the Islamic Republic) ; Ali Larijani (brother of the Chief of the Islamic Judiciary and President of the National Assembly).
Press TV – April1, 2025
A senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that if the United States and Israel bomb Iran under any nuclear pretext, the Islamic Republic may have no choice but to go nuclear.
Ali Larijani sounded the alert on Monday, after US President Donald Trump has in multiple times during the past several days threatened Iran with bombardment if Tehran refused to strike a new agreement on its nuclear program with Washington.
“Iran has gained a distinguished position among major powers, and most Western countries want to establish independent relations with Iran. However, due to US pressure, they have not taken a definitive stance,” he said in an interview.
Back in May 2018, the US began to unilaterally impose sanctions against Iran after Trump pull out his country from the 2015 nuclear deal – officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – between Iran and world powers.
The then-Trump administration launched what it called a maximum pressure campaign against Iran at the time, targeting the Iranian nation with the “toughest ever” embargoes through returning the sanctions that the agreement had lifted, and imposing even more illegal and unilateral bans against Tehran.
Retaliating against the measures, Iran took legitimate nuclear steps that have featured its operationalizing advanced centrifuges, among other things.
“If the US or Israel bomb Iran under the pretext of Iran’s nuclear issue, the Islamic Republic will be forced to move towards producing nuclear bombs. Iranian people will pressure us to develop nuclear weapons,” Larijani stressed.
Trump revealed in early March that he had sent a letter to Iran. At the same time, he reinstated his maximum pressure policy against Iran by imposing fresh sanctions on the country. The letter was delivered to Tehran on March 12 by UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash.
On March 27, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Tehran’s official response to the US president’s letter had been sent through Oman.
Iran has stressed time and again that it will not sit at the negotiating table with the US administration as Trump continues his pressure campaign against Tehran.
“Military action against Iran will not be without consequences. The content of Trump’s letter is almost the same rhetoric he always repeats,” further said Larijani, who served as parliament speaker between 2008 and 2020.
Iran has ruled out direct negotiations with the US under pressure but has said it is open to indirect talks.
“Indirect negotiations are about understanding each side’s demands and concessions. In the nuclear issue, Trump disrupted the agreement, but Iran’s nuclear program cannot be destroyed by bombing,” Larijani stressed.
In an interview with NBC News late last week, Trump threatened that “If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing.”
On Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei warned that if the US commits any hostile act against the Islamic Republic, “it will certainly receive a heavy blow in return.”
Elsewhere in his remarks, Larijani noted that most politicians consider Trump’s statements to be mere rhetoric, adding that Ayatollah Khamenei did not consider the JCPOA a good agreement because a US president easily broke his country’s commitments, “whereas we upheld ours.”
“The Leader’s fatwa prohibits nuclear weapons, but if the US makes a mistake, public pressure will force Iran toward nuclear armament,” Larijani stressed.
“Western discussions revolve around destabilizing Iran from within. Despite economic discontent, the Islamic Republic enjoys strong public support. The bond between the people and the Revolution is like that between a parent and child,” the Leader’s advisor further emphasized.
Last month, Ayatollah Khamenei dismissed Trump’s outreach for talks, criticizing him of attempting to deceive global public opinion by portraying the United States as willing to negotiate while framing Iran as unwilling to engage.
Iran remains the most verified Member State of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear agency, having put the country’s nuclear program under the agency’s most comprehensive and frequent verification processes over decades.
Ayatollah Khamenei – through a relevant fatwa (religious decree) – has banned pursuance, acquisition, and storage of non-conventional weapons by the Islamic Republic that is among the first signatories to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
thankyou putin for saying you will protect iran
we have that idiot kier starmer sending the RAF to bomb arab villages
and we thought tony blair was a nutjob psychopath
i wondetred what had happened to that other nutjob carl jones
but i hear hes off looking for his stolen trousers
Iran acquired at least two, maybe more, big dirty Soviet era nukes, and the Iranian elites have eluded to the possibility that one of these big nukes is already in Nazi Amerika.
I used to work with an Iranian immigrant, who spoke better English than most home raised thicko sheeple. He had a brother in the Iranian military, and he said this nuke thing was common knowledge in the military, and that if Iran was attacked, the policy was to deploy these nukes, before the military became degraded.
The much publicised deployment of B2s to Diego Garcia gives Iran much time to reset policy, and assemble a given number of nukes.
Consider that Nazi fake news media is openly saying Nazi Amerika is about to attack Iran, then we must assume the Nazis wants Iran to make a decisive move.
Me, I’m a slam dunk in the Nazis court/net. Iran should nuke Diago Garcia, just as I’ve said many times, Russia should have nuked Nazi UK two years ago.
BTW, Nazi Amerika and Nazi Israel know all about Iran having Soviet era nukes, and also keep in mind that Iranian claims they’ve not built any nukes, this is just a play on words.