Ebrahim Rezaee, spokesman for the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, responded Friday to Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz's statement that Mojtaba Khamenei has been "marked for death." According to Iran's Tasnim news agency, Rezaee said the threat to assassinate the Islamic Republic's leader constitutes a justified cause to reconsider Iran's nuclear doctrine.
Ebrahim Rezaee, spokesman for the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, responded on Friday to Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz's statement threatening to assassinate Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. Rezaee claimed the threat provides "a justified and solid reason" to revisit Iran's nuclear doctrine and the provisions of the Islamabad agreement, according to Iranian media.
The statement follows a series of Iranian official threats over the past month regarding a potential revision of nuclear policy in response to Israeli military actions. As The Zioneer reported at 03:00 Friday, an earlier statement from the same official — attributed by Iranian media — made similar claims regarding the nuclear doctrine but did not directly reference Katz's remark at that time. The current response is the first to explicitly tie the nuclear doctrine reconsideration to Katz's specific threat against Mojtaba Khamenei.
It remains unclear whether the Iranian parliament or the Supreme National Security Council has formally initiated any review. Rezaee's remarks have not been independently corroborated by non-Iranian sources.
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