Killing of security chief Ali Larijani has made it more difficult for less hawkish figures to push back on IRGC hardliners’ support for building a bomb and bolting NPT, sources say
The debate among Iranian hardliners over whether Tehran should seek a nuclear bomb in defiance of an escalating US-Israeli campaign is getting louder, more public and more insistent, sources in the country say.
There is no plan to change Iran’s nuclear doctrine yet, and Iran has not decided to seek a bomb, one of the sources said, but serious voices in the establishment are questioning the existing policy and demanding a change.
The US-Israeli attacks on Iran, which came about a month into indirect nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran, may have changed the equation, convincing Iranian strategists that they have little to gain by forswearing a bomb or staying in the NPT.
This supports my tenet that the Iranian regime is crumbling.
ReplyDeleteThe original intent of the nuclear bomb program, I think, was not to have the bomb to use it as a defensive shield in case of a foreign country making a hostile attempt to invade and conquer Iran.
The original purpose was to threaten other countries in an attempt at regional and eventual or simultaneous world domination.
But the U.S. and the State of Israel took the Iranians at their implicit word and preemptively attacked. That is, even without the Iranians publicly stating their intent to build an atomic weapon, it was obvious that is what they were up to.
Now that the country is in shambles, desperation has apparently taken hold of a section of the regime that is cracking apart. That faction seems to now have a "what have we got to lose, we've lost everything already" attitude. So, they finally say openly what the people they villified had figured out already.