TEHRAN – The U.S. is responsible for all Israeli acts of terror targeting the Iranian nuclear facilities and the people working for the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani has said.
Shamkhani cited U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan who has said Washington would recognize Tel Aviv’s “freedom of action” in the event of what he alleged as Tehran’s attempt “to obtain a nuclear weapon.”
Tehran has invariably asserted that its nuclear program is aimed at purely peaceful purposes and that the Islamic Republic has no intention of developing nuclear weapons.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has even issued a fatwa (religious decree) declaring that the acquisition, development, and use of nuclear weapons violated Islamic principles and were therefore forbidden.
“This admission [by the United States] means that the U.S. has been and will be responsible for all terrorist acts of Zionists against Iran’s facilities and people, and should definitely accept its consequences,” Shamkhani wrote in a Persian tweet which was also later published in English.
The Zionist regime has assassinated as many as seven Iranian nuclear scientists, including Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whom the regime subjected to targeted killing in 2020, and targeted Iran’s nuclear installations on several occasions with terrorist crimes.
The occupying regime is also the Middle East’s sole possessor of nuclear weapons, including hundreds of atomic warheads.