Fars News, affiliated with Iran's IRGC, has published a commentary explicitly calling for Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon for deterrence, crossing a decades-old public red line.
In a development analysts are calling one of the most significant rhetorical shifts in the Islamic Republic's history, the IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency has published a commentary explicitly calling for Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, crossing a public red line that Tehran has maintained, however tenuously, for decades. Fars News wrote that Iran has no choice but to obtain a nuclear bomb to remove the military option against the country during the transition to a new world order, arguing that Iran must achieve nuclear deterrence to gain the "calm needed" to ensure other disputes can be resolved through negotiations, and that only under such conditions would negotiations be possible from the "right position."
The commentary argued that nuclear deterrence could create a balance of power between Iran, the United States and Israel, and keep the scope of any possible conflict "under control," adding that nuclear deterrence "does not mean that war will not occur; rather, the scope of the conflict will become controllable." Iran International noted that no part of the Iranian governing establishment, nor state-controlled media, had previously made such an argument publicly.
The statement lands at an extraordinarily sensitive moment. Iran's key enrichment facilities at Natanz and Fordow were severely damaged in U.S. and Israeli strikes, and the MOU signed on June 14th remains deeply contested, with hardline factions inside Iran actively working to torpedo it. Experts say Khamenei's death at the hands of the United States and Israel may have cleared a path for the regime's hardest-line factions to rethink his longstanding nuclear fatwa banning weapons development. "The nuclear fatwa is dead," Quincy Institute's Trita Parsi told CNN. "Elite opinion as well as public opinion has shifted dramatically on this, which shouldn't be surprising since Iran has been bombed twice in the midst of negoti)ations by two nuclear-equipped states." (Ed note: How many times have you heard President Trump say, "Iran will never have a nuclear bomb?" The IRGC just openly stated, "we're going for it." How will Trump ignore that "In your face" statement?
And Iran is NOT talking about "nuclear deterrence" they are talking about the annihilation of the Jewish race. (Read More)
