Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says Tehran’s enemies may be able to strike the country’s nuclear facilities but cannot deprive it of its ability to build new ones.
He makes the comments after reports in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal said that US intelligence believes Israel is likely to launch a preemptive attack on Iran’s nuclear program in the coming months.
Such an attack would set back Iran’s nuclear program by weeks or months while escalating tension in the region and risking a wider conflict, according to multiple intelligence reports from the end of the Biden administration and start of the Trump administration, the Washington Post reported.
The most comprehensive of the intelligence reports came in early January and was produced by the intelligence directorate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Post said.
It warned that Israel was likely to attempt an attack on Iran’s Fordo and Natanz nuclear facilities.