United Nations: Iran has written to the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency to complain about Israeli threats to strike its atomic energy sites, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a weekly press conference on Monday.
Israel vowed to attack Iran in response to a barrage of Iranian missiles on October 1, sparking widespread speculation that Iranian nuclear sites may be among the targets.
“Threats to attack nuclear sites contradict United Nations resolutions… We have sent a message in this regard to… the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations,” ministry spokesman Ismail Baghaei said in a televised press conference.
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that Israel will listen to its main ally, the United States, regarding the response to the Iranian missile attack, but will decide its actions according to its national interests.
He attached his statement to an article published by the Washington Post, which said that Netanyahu informed the administration of President Joe Biden that Israel would strike Iranian military targets, not nuclear or oil sites.
In response to a question about the possibility of Iran changing its official nuclear doctrine, Baghaei said, “Weapons of mass destruction have no place in our policy.” Tehran will decide how and when to respond to any Israeli attack.
Iran has repeatedly denied Western accusations that it secretly sought to develop nuclear bombs in violation of its obligations to the global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Separately, Baghaei said that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will travel to Bahrain and Kuwait on Monday as part of Iranian efforts to reduce regional tensions.
Iran fired dozens of missiles at Israel in response to Israeli attacks on its allies Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip – the second Iranian missile attack on Israel this year. Israel responded to the first missile salvo in April with an airstrike on an air defense site in central Iran.