Ebrahim Rezaee, spokesman for the Iranian parliament's National Security Committee, said that the Israeli defense minister's threat to assassinate Iran's supreme leader constitutes a "justified and solid reason" to reconsider Iran's nuclear doctrine and Article 8 of the Islamabad agreement, Iranian media reports.
Ebrahim Rezaee, the influential spokesman for the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, issued a statement early Friday morning in which he directly linked an alleged threat by Israel's defense minister against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to a potential shift in Iran's nuclear doctrine. Rezaee argued the threat provides a "justified and solid reason" for Tehran to revisit its nuclear stance, as well as Article 8 of the Islamabad agreement — a bilateral security pact between Iran and Pakistan signed in April 2016, which includes provisions against nuclear proliferation. The statement escalates the rhetorical confrontation between the two countries, building on a series of threats by Iranian officials in recent weeks (as The Zioneer has reported). Rezaee did not specify what changes to the nuclear doctrine are being considered. The claim regarding the Israeli threat has not been independently confirmed, and the statement remains a developing, single-source report from Iranian media.
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