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IRAN SAYS IT HAS THE CAPACITY TO MAKE NUCLEAR WEAPONS; SUPREME LEADER THREATENS
U.S. AND ISRAEL

An adviser to the supreme leader said Iran is prepared to change its policies on
using nuclear weapons if faced with an existential threat.

A security official in protective clothing at the uranium conversion facility
just outside Isfahan, Iran, in 2005. Vahid Salemi / AP file
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Nov. 1, 2024, 6:55 PM GMT+1 / Updated Nov. 2, 2024, 10:27 AM GMT+1
By Aurora Almendral, Amin Khodadadi and Andrew Jones

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed “a tooth-breaking response”
against Israel and the United States on Saturday “for what they are doing
against Iran” and its proxies.

The comments came a day after Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Khamenei, said Iran
has the capacity to produce nuclear weapons and is prepared to change its
policies on using them if faced with an existential threat, as the the country
engages in a high-stakes tit for tat with Israel.




Kharrazi also said the country is likely to increase the range of its ballistic
missiles.

“If an existential threat arises, Iran will modify its nuclear doctrine. We have
the capability to build weapons and have no issue in this regard,” Kharrazi told
the Lebanese broadcaster Al Mayadeen on Friday.

Kharrazi added that “the only thing currently prohibiting this is the leader’s
fatwa.” Khamenei issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, against nuclear weapons in
2003.

In a statement on Saturday, Gen. Mohammad Naeini, a spokesperson for Iran’s
Revolutionary Guard, added to a rising chorus of escalatory remarks from Iranian
officials, saying “a decisive and strong response will be given to the enemy’s
new aggression. The response will be beyond the enemy’s comprehension,
strategic, and powerful.”



“The enemy must learn its lesson that it cannot engage in any act of hostility
without receiving a crushing response in return,” he said, referring to Israel.

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CIA Director William Burns said earlier in October that the United States had no
evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear weapon, but that Iran could
quickly — within a week or so — secure enough fissile material for an atomic
bomb if it chose to, and there would be less time for the world to respond.A
State Department spokesperson told NBC News on Friday that the U.S. remains very
concerned about Iran’s nuclear activities.

“The president has made clear: We are committed to never letting Iran obtain a
nuclear weapon — and we are prepared to use all elements of national power to
ensure that outcome,” the spokesperson said.

The spokesperson added that the U.S. intelligence community continues to assess
that the supreme leader has not made a decision to resume its nuclear weapons
program.

“That said,” the spokesperson added, “we take any nuclear escalation by Iran
incredibly seriously and will respond accordingly.”

On Friday, the Pentagon said it will deploy B-52 bombers, fighter jets,
refueling aircraft and Navy destroyers to the Middle East in a readjustment of
military assets as the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group prepares to leave
the region.



“Should Iran, its partners, or its proxies use this moment to target American
personnel or interests in the region, the United States will take every measure
necessary to defend our people,” Pentagon spokesperson Air Force Maj. Gen.
Patrick Ryder said in a statement.



Iran has long denied it was seeking a nuclear weapons program since abandoning
it after Khamenei’s 2003 fatwa.


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On Thursday, Netanyahu said Israel had unprecedented freedom of action after the
recent airstrikes against Iran.

“We can reach any place in Iran as necessary,” he said in a speech. “The supreme
goal I gave to the Israel Defense Forces and the security branches is to prevent
Iran from achieving a nuclear weapon.”


RETALIATORY STRIKES

Israel hit Iran with three waves of predawn strikes on military targets last
Saturday, in what U.S. officials and others had hoped would be the last shot in
a hostile exchange between the two regional powers.

The strikes came weeks after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel in
retaliation for its assassinations of leaders of Hamas and Iran-backed
Hezbollah. The escalation came as Israel refocused from the war in Gaza
triggered by the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks to fight the Lebanese militia and
political group with which it had been trading blows for a year.



Saturday’s comments from Khamenei, made on the eve of anniversary of the 1979
storming of the American Embassy in Tehran, are the latest sign that Iran may
not let Israel’s strikes go without response.

Iran had initially downplayed the impact of Israel’s strikes on its military
facilities, but in recent days has begun to voice increasingly belligerent
rhetoric.

Several Iranian officials made separate statements earlier this week. Hossein
Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, threatened “an
unimaginable response” for Israel’s attack, Tasnim, the semiofficial Iranian
news agency, reported.

Ali Fadavi, the deputy commander of the IRGC, said that “Iran’s response to
Israel’s aggression is certain.”

“For over 40 years we have never left an act of aggression unanswered, and we
have the capability to target all of the Zionist regime’s assets in a single
operation,” Fadavi added, referring to Israel.

Kharrazi’s statement on Friday referenced Iran’s historical reliance on Europe
as a diplomatic lifeline, which appears to have deteriorated.



“In the matter of missile range, we have so far considered Western
sensitivities, particularly those of the Europeans,” he said. “When they
disregard our sensitivities, especially regarding the territorial integrity of
the Islamic Republic of Iran, there is no reason for us to consider their
concerns.”

“There is a possibility that the range of Iran’s missiles may increase,” he
said.

In 2015, during the administration of President Barack Obama, it sealed a
nuclear deal with the United States and other world powers, promising to curb
its nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in sanctions relief.

But in 2017, then-President Donald Trump withdrew from the plan, saying it did
not curtail Iran’s ballistic missile program or the influence of Iran’s powerful
proxies in the region. Since the U.S. exit, Iran has steadily blown through the
restrictions on its nuclear activities and blocked international inspectors from
seeing some nuclear sites.

Aurora Almendral

Aurora Almendral is a London-based editor with NBC News Digital.

Amin Khodadadi


Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones is a senior desk editor.

Abigail Williams, Dan De Luce and Reuters contributed.


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