Senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader threatens change in country's nuclear doctrine

(12 May 2024)
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Tehran, Iran - 12 May 2024
1. Participants talking at the Iran-Arab dialog Forum for Cooperation
2. Attendees
3. Wide of panelists at conference
4. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Kammal Kharrazi, adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:
"If Israel musters the courage to make a nuclear threat against Iran, we may reconsider our nuclear doctrine."
5. Pan right of conference
6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Kammal Kharrazi, adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:
"If the enemy threatens you, what should you do? You'll have no choice but to change your doctrine."
7. Participants clapping
STORYLINE:
An adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei again threatened that the country may reconsider its nuclear doctrine, in what appeared to be a reference to building a nuclear weapon.

"If Israel musters the courage to make a nuclear threat against Iran, we may reconsider our nuclear doctrine," said Kamal Kharrazi, a former foreign minister.

He made the comments during an event called the "Iran-Arab Dialog Forum" in Tehran.

Tensions have grown between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency since 2018, when then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from Tehran’s nuclear deal.

Since then, Iran has abandoned all limits the deal put on its program and enriches uranium to up to 60% purity — near weapons-grade levels of 90%.

Meanwhile, tensions between Iran and Israel have hit a new high.

Tehran launched a drone-and-missile attack on Israel last month after Israel’s apparent attack on an Iranian consular building in Syria killed two Iranian generals and others.

The Iranian city of Isfahan then apparently came under Israeli fire in recent weeks, despite being surrounded by sensitive nuclear sites.

AP video by Saeed Sarmadi

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