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For two decades, Tehran’s line on the bomb never changed. It does now. The New York Times reported Tuesday that a growing chorus of Iranian officials, lawmakers, and clerics is openly calling for the Islamic Republic to build nuclear weapons.
A few years ago, that sentence would have been unthinkable.
Friday prayer leaders are preaching it.
Rally crowds are chanting it. Sitting members of parliament are posting it on social media.
In the western city of Kuhdasht, a prayer leader named Ali Sepahvand called for atomic arms last week while worshippers chanted that nuclear deterrence was Iran’s “inalienable right.”
Lawmaker Mahmoud Nabavian wrote that after paying the price of war and sanctions, it was time to walk away from the Non-Proliferation Treaty and change the country’s nuclear doctrine.
Another lawmaker, Abolfazl Aboutorabi, went further and called for an actual bomb. Cleric Mohammad Javad Haj Ali Akbari used his Friday sermon to describe a doctrine change as a “national demand.”
Steve Balestrieri
November 4, 2026
Iran is slowly crossing a red line that seems unthinkable: Tehran looks more and more likely to want nuclear weapons
Somehow, I don’t think that attitude is going to be a productive way of making progress toward that goal.
I think the more likely result will be that many people will decide Iran needs to have their attitude forcibly adjusted.
Of course they are. their preferred(supported) party, the muzziecommiecrats, stole another election. When I say stole, that’s what I mean. Dude on the web asked one of the AI’s to calculate the odds of every red county shifting blue as they did. The odds were beyond astronomical.
And did you notice all the blue cities that NEVER get their votes in on time were the first ones up with their totals?