Iran threatens to use more powerful warheads against Israel in next attack: report
Iranian officials threatened that the country could use more powerful warheads in a retaliation against Israel, in an attack that may come as early as the day after the U.S. election.
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Despite U.S. warnings against a counterattack on Iran, Iranian authorities have reportedly warned they are preparing the nation's next attack utilizing more potent warheads than any weapons previously used in strikes against Israel.
On October 26, Israel launched an airstrike on Iran that targeted vital military facilities. Israel launched the operation in retaliation for a salvo of over 200 missiles that Iran had fired into Israel on October 1.
Israel has avoided attacking Iran's nuclear and oil installations, which are vital to its security, according to the Wall Street Journal. According to Israeli leaders, logic may shift.
After Israel's most recent attack claimed the lives of four soldiers and a civilian, Iranian and Arab ambassadors reportedly stated that their conventional army might be used in future attacks against Israel. However, deploying the conventional army does not always imply the deployment of troops; rather, it may indicate that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, which normally handles Israeli security measures, will not act alone.
Arab and Iranian officials also said Iran does not plan to limit its response to drones and missiles, like the previous attacks. Any missiles used in the future, the officials added, would have more powerful warheads.
In the attack on Oct. 1, the WSJ reported, Iran said it mostly used four different types of medium-range ballistic missiles.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) senior fellow Behnam Ben Taleblu told Fox News Digital the challenge with signaling an attack is that it must be mutually intelligible. He said any successful strike, like the one by Israel in October that was designed to stem escalation, can be perceived by the Iranian regime as a slight that must be responded to.
"Assessments from Iranian outlets and officials have morphed from trying to downplay the strike to using it to grandstand and threaten revenge," Taleblu said. "Make no mistake, Tehran still has the capability to respond. The Islamic Republic can still fire considerably more projectiles and with heavier warheads than have been employed in its first two direct attacks against Israel. Escalating without air defenses is either leading with one’s chin or setting the pieces of the puzzle in place to justify a move towards developing atomic weapons."
On Saturday, Iran claimed it is capable of building a nuclear weapon when Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed a "tooth-breaking" response to the actions of both Israel and the U.S. on Saturday.
Kamal Kharrazi, a top adviser to Khamenei, issued a warning about Iran’s nuclear capacity on Friday, saying the country may be prepared to alter its policies on using nuclear weapons if the nation faces an existential threat.
"If an existential threat arises, Iran will modify its nuclear doctrine, we have the capability to build weapons and have no issue in this regard," Kharrazi told Lebanese media.
The threat from Iran remains to be seen.
The WSJ also reported that the Iranian official said it does not want to influence the U.S. election with the attack, adding any response to Israel’s attack on Oct. 26 would come after Election Day on Tuesday but before the winner of the presidential election is inaugurated in January.
Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
