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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Maziar Motamedi

Hardline lawmakers demand nuclear bomb as Iran braces for UN sanctions

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks at the parliament in Tehran, Iran [File: Majid Asgaripour/West Asia News Agency via Reuters]

Tehran, Iran – Hardline lawmakers in Iran have once again demanded the country start building a nuclear bomb as Western powers are days away from reimposing United Nations sanctions amid concerns war could restart with Israel.

Led by a lawmaker from the ultraconservative holy Shia city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, 70 members of parliament signed onto a letter calling for a “change in the defence doctrine” of the theocratic establishment.

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