Ali Larijani, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, responded to Trump’s warnings that there will be bombings if there is no deal. Larijani declared, “We are not moving towards (nuclear) weapons, but if you do something wrong in the Iranian nuclear issue, you will force Iran to move towards that because it has to defend itself.”
“Iran does not want to do this, but … (it) will have no choice,” he added.
“If at some point you (the US) move towards bombing by yourself or through Israel, you will force Iran to make a different decision.”
This is among the most explicit suggestions from a senior Iranian figure that the Supreme Leader’s prohibition on securing nuclear weapons would be revisited amid war.