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Iran is slowly crossing a red line that seems unthinkable: Tehran looks more and more likely to want nuclear weapons
A growing chorus of Iranian officials, lawmakers and clerics is openly calling for nuclear weapons, a shift unthinkable a few years ago. The elder supreme leader’s fatwa is gone, the IAEA has lost track of Iran’s enriched uranium,
A growing number of Iranian officials, lawmakers and influential clerics are openly advocating the development of nuclear weapons, with some demanding that Tehran withdraw from an international nonproliferation treaty and begin building atomic bombs, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Facing three paths following major US strikes on its nuclear infrastructure, Iran is most likely to rebuild its latent capacity—balancing national pride and economic need while avoiding the extreme risks of total dismantlement or outright weaponization.
President Donald Trump threatened to strike Iran's heavily fortified Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility during a Monday night interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
For years, Iran's declared position was a fatwa by Ali Khamenei, which declared weapons of mass destruction as forbidden under Islam. He summed up his stance as "nuclear energy for all, and nuclear weapons for none", and elsewhere called the atomic bomb "a crime against humanity".
The podcaster who cried nukes. Conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson wildly claimed Sunday that President Trump was preparing to launch a nuclear weapon against Iran in the coming days — as he dementedly suggested that the administration were puppets for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
⛔️Tucker Carlson claims that under pressure from Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be "within days" of a **nuclear** strike on Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, near Natanz. He says Israeli intelligence believes uranium enrichment has restarted there. He argues no conventional US… pic.twitter.com/55DwkWObJz
The calls have surged since devastating US and Israeli strikes killed much of Iran's leadership, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and pummeled key infrastructure; President Trump has suggested strikes would resume after midterm elections in the US.
