IRAN WARNS: We'll Hit Israel's Secret Nuke Sites if Attacked
Iran says it recently obtained secret details about Tel Aviv's nuclear program as war posturing between the U.S. and Tehran heats up
Iran will carry out strikes on Israel’s secret nuclear facilities if its own sites are attacked, the country’s Supreme National Security Council said on Monday.
Tehran claimed over the weekend that it had obtained a trove of secret information about the Israeli nuclear apparatus and updated its targeting list to include Israel’s “clandestine nuclear facilities,” according to IRNA.
The statement said Iran will be able to “respond immediately to any potential aggression by the Zionist regime against our nuclear facilities by attacking its hidden nuclear facilities.”
U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters in Washington that Iran has essentially rejected the latest deal presented by Steve Witkoff, his chief negotiator.
“They’re just asking for things that you can’t do. They don’t want to give up what they have to give up. You know what that is: They seek enrichment,” he said, according to The New York Times.
Witkoff appeared on Fox News in April and indicated that Washington would be willing to accept a deal that allows Iran some enrichment. He mentioned 3.67 percent, which was the level agreed upon during the Obama administration. (Highly enriched uranium is considered weapons-grade at 90 percent.)
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later said Iran cannot be allowed any enrichment and the only acceptable solution is that Tehran willingly destroys its nuclear facilities “under American supervision.”
Witkoff changed his tune after Netanyahu’s remarks and said the Trump administration will only accept the complete elimination of Iran’s program, which means no enrichment.
Trump told reporters:
“We can’t have enrichment. We want just the opposite, and so far, they’re not there. I hate to say that, because the alternative is a very, very dire one.”
Trump gave a speech in Saudi Arabia last month and called Iran the most “destructive force” in West Asia—accusing the country of “stealing their people’s wealth” and using it to fund destabilizing proxies in the region.
Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, rejected the allegations from Trump and said it has been the U.S. that has “prevented the progress of the Iranian nation through its sanctions over the past forty-odd years, with its own pressures and military and civilian threats,” ABC News reported, citing Iran’s Fars News Agency. “The one responsible for the economic problems is America.”
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