Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of the National Security Commission of the Parliament, told ILNA: “The time has come for the Islamic Republic to build an atomic bomb, because it has already paid enough for it and carried out its sparring; therefore, it is now necessary to build the bomb.”

In response to a question about the likelihood of a global consensus against the Islamic Republic if it attempts to build a nuclear weapon, he said: “Is there not already a global consensus against the Islamic Republic? The United States is at war with us every day. It has deployed 60,000 forces, along with its aircraft carriers, frigates, and warships, in the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean. So this consensus exists right now as well. Therefore, pleading once and lamenting once.”

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