Iran threatens again… Will the nuclear doctrine be changed?

An advisor to the Iranian leader, Kamal Kharazi, said that his country “may find itself forced” to change its nuclear doctrine, “if its existence becomes threatened.”

Kharazi said, according to the Iranian Students News Agency, on Thursday, that Tehran “will be forced to change its nuclear doctrine if its existence becomes threatened by Israel,” according to Reuters.

This is not the first time that an Iranian official has spoken about changing the nuclear doctrine, as the semi-official Tasnim News Agency, last April, quoted a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as saying that Tehrat “may review its nuclear doctrine” in light of Israeli threats.

But soon the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, came out and said that nuclear weapons “have no place in Iran’s nuclear doctrine.”

Tehran insists that its nuclear program is intended only for safe purposes, even though it enriches uranium to a purity of up to 60 percent, which is close to the level of enrichment necessary to make a nuclear weapon.