Ali Asghar Naheirad, a member of the Interior Committee and the country's interior councils in the Islamic Parliament, said on Tuesday, November 10 to the website "Iran Maksif" that removing the uranium from the country is the "red line of the Islamic Republic" and Mujtaba Khamenei will not allow such an action.
In an interview with this media, while defending the necessity of acquiring nuclear weapons, Nakhirad claimed that the production and stockpiling of such weapons could create a deterrent for the Islamic Republic even without using them. These statements are made while a number of officials and representatives of the Islamic Republic have commented in recent months on the change in the country's nuclear doctrine, the withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the need to review the nuclear policy.