A senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader has warned Tehran could change its nuclear doctrine if Israel targets the Islamic republic’s atomic facilities.
As Iran and the wider Middle East brace for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to last week’s Iranian missile attack on Israel, Brigadier General Rasoul Sanaei-Rad said: “Striking nuclear sites could certainly have an impact on the calculations during and after the war.”
“Some politicians have already raised the possibility of changes in [Iran’s] nuclear strategic policies,” Sanaei-Rad, a political adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told Fars, an Iranian news agency. “Moreover, such actions [an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear plants] would cross regional and global red lines.”