Iranian Parliament: We are prepared for any attack, and the nuclear program will advance.

 

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf

Iranian Parliament: We are prepared for any attack, and the nuclear program will advance.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf announced that his country would be more prepared than ever to respond to any attack.

"It will advance at a faster pace than before."

Qalibaf added that Iran's nuclear program will advance at a faster pace than before, according to Mehr News Agency.

This comes as the US president and his associates insist that the strikes have ended Iran's nuclear program. Trump said the attacks were necessary to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, adding that important nuclear sites were "completely and utterly destroyed."

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio then reiterated the effectiveness of the strikes launched last Saturday. In an interview with Politico published Wednesday, he said that significant and fundamental damage was inflicted on a variety of components of Iran's nuclear program.

He also stressed that Tehran is further away from a nuclear weapon than it was before US President Donald Trump made his bold decision to destroy the three nuclear sites (Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan).

However, an intelligence assessment prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the main intelligence arm of the Pentagon and one of 18 US intelligence agencies, and published by US media yesterday, stated that the US strikes did not significantly destroy the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear facilities, but rather delayed Iran's nuclear program by only a few months.

It's worth noting that since June 13, Israel has assassinated dozens of senior military commanders, most notably Chief of Staff Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, Revolutionary Guards Commander Hossein Salami, and Ali Shadmani, commander of the Khatam al-Anbia Headquarters, just days after his appointment. An unprecedented 12-day war then raged between Iran and Israel, before a ceasefire agreement was announced on Tuesday.