Hosein Maleki, a member of the National Security Commission of the Iranian parliament, in response to remarks by Marco Rubio, the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic, about preventing the Islamic Republic from acquiring nuclear weapons, said: “Iran obtains whatever it wants, and there is no gap either for accessing and using nuclear knowledge.”

Maleki, in an interview with Iran Watch, said: “Iran obtains whatever it wants, and there is no gap either for accessing and using nuclear knowledge.”

He also warned that in the event of a war, the Islamic Republic would target other objectives in Arab countries in the region in addition to military bases. Maleki said that if pressure on the Islamic Republic increases, mobile targets in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman may also become targets of an attack.