A group of 39 Iranian deputies appealed to the country's Supreme National Security Council with a request to allow the creation of nuclear weapons against the background of the threat from Israel, said the initiator of the appeal, parliamentarian Hasanali Ekhlaki Amiri.
“A letter has been sent to the Supreme National Security Council, which has currently been signed by 39 deputies. The subject of the letter is a request to reconsider the defense doctrine of the Islamic Republic in the field of nuclear weapons,” Amiri said in a conversation with a journalist from the Iranian portal Didban Iran.
On October 6, the head of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Yoav Galant, stated that the military-political leadership of Israel does not exclude a possible strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities as a response to the Iranian missile attack at the beginning of the month. Prior to this, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again declared the right and obligations of the Jewish state to respond to Iran's missile attack on Israeli territory. On the evening of October 1, Iran, as revenge for the death of the leader of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, launched a massive missile attack on Israeli territory.
According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Iran fired more than 180 ballistic missiles. Israeli air defense systems intercepted most of them. On October 1, The New York Times, citing sources, reported that Israel could allegedly strike nuclear facilities on Iranian territory as a response to Iran’s massive missile attack. It is alleged that the target of an Israeli retaliatory strike could allegedly be objects in the city of Netenz, in particular a mining and processing industrial enterprise.