Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday 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.”
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.”