With Israel in the spotlight for threatening to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, a senior foreign policy source in Tehran said Iran may already have the nuclear capabilities to shut it out.
Last month, Iran International informed Ahmed Bakhshayesh Adestani’s statement that the Iranian regime possesses nuclear weapons. The insider politician said when he was re-elected to parliament in March:
“[Iran has] We have acquired nuclear weapons, but we will not declare them. That means our policy is to have the bomb, but our declared policy is currently within the framework of the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action). The reason is that when countries want to confront other countries, their capabilities must be compatible, and Iran’s compatibility with the United States and Israel means that Iran must have nuclear weapons.
Gateway Pundit spoke with Claire Lopez about Adestani’s comments. “Given all the evidence, it makes perfect sense,” said Lopez, founder and president of Lopez Liberty LLC and a longtime researcher on the Iranian nuclear threat. Without the regime’s approval, she explained, Adesta Nigeria will not be allowed to make a statement.
In April 2022, Iranian parliament member Ali Motaheri admitted on ISCA News that “when we [Iran] Starting our nuclear campaign, our goal is indeed to build a bomb, [adding] No need to beat around the bush.
Lopez said such comments are an example of “their becoming bolder and not hiding anymore.”
In August 2002, Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the Washington office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), publicly announced the existence of Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program. Satellite images of the Natanz uranium enrichment site and the Arak heavy water facility were first shown at the briefing decades ago. “The press conference in Washington, D.C., basically lifted the lid on the Iranian government,” Lopez said.
Lopez said that in November 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a report on Iran’s nuclear weapons program that identified all “possible military dimensions” of the program. The report revealed that “Iran is undertaking a project to secure sources of uranium suitable for use in an undisclosed enrichment program, the products of which will be converted into metal for use in new warheads, which are the subject of renewed missile development.” “Introductory Vehicle Research. “
What’s more, Lopez noted that the 2011 report not only developed a “hemisphere into a bomb crater” but was also testing a “multiple implosion point detonator.”
Lopez said that a raid directed by Israel’s Mossad in January 2016 further confirmed that, consistent with previous reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency, “Iran is actively pursuing a nuclear weapons program.” In April 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that more than 100,000 documents, including documents from 2003, had been seized from a warehouse in Tehran and revealed that Iran was laying the groundwork for the development of a nuclear warhead.
After two decades of falsifying information and subsequently increasingly public disclosures of their nuclear weapons program, Lopez said, “I think there’s no question they are building warheads.” But interestingly, She noted that “the international community will continue to refuse to call it a weapon until the warhead is actually installed on the front end of the missile delivery system.”
“While I believe they have warheads and they have missiles, I think putting warheads on the front of missiles would be Israel’s final red line,” she warned. “You better believe they’re watching, [while] Mossad is working with Iran’s internal opposition groups, such as the People’s Jihadist Movement (MEK), to issue warnings if Iran decides to install warheads on missiles.
“At that point, Israel will have to make big decisions,” Lopez said.
