Raisi: Tehran ‘Will Target Israel’s Heart If It Makes Slightest Move’

By JNS
Posted on 04/18/22 | News Source: JNS

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said today that the Islamic Republic would strike Israel’s “heart” if the Jewish state conducted any form of attack against it.

In a televised speech delivered during a military parade, Raisi stated, “If you make slightest move against our nation … our armed forces’ destination will be the heart of the Zionist regime,” according to Reuters.

“America is responsible for the halt of these talks … a deal is very much within reach,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told a weekly news conference, according to Reuters.

“Washington should make a political decision for the deal’s revival,” he said, adding that Tehran would “not wait forever.”

In a report issued on April 11, the Washington-based Institute For Science And International Security warned that “as soon as mid-to-late April, Iran is expected to reach a new dangerous, destabilizing threshold, having enough highly enriched uranium (HEU) to fashion a nuclear explosive, about 40-42 kilograms … of 60 percent enriched uranium (uranium mass).”


The report said that with this quantity, “an enrichment level of 60 percent suffices to create a relatively compact nuclear explosive; further enrichment to 80 or 90 percent is not needed.”