Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday that Tehran’s enemies may be able to strike the country’s nuclear centers but they cannot deprive it of its ability to build new ones.
He made his comments following a Washington Post report that U.S. intelligence believes Israel may launch a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear sites in Fordow and Natanz by mid-year, aiming to exploit damage to Iranian air defenses from an IDF attack in October.
“They threaten us that they will hit nuclear facilities … If you (the enemy) strike a hundred of those we will build a thousand other ones … You can hit the buildings and the places but you cannot hit those who build it,” Pezeshkian said, according to state media.
U.S. President Donald Trump raised on Monday the possibility of Israel hitting Iran in an interview with Fox News saying he would prefer to make a deal with Iran to prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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