According to a report by Times of Israel, on Tuesday May 12, 2026, Iran has put the world on notice. A senior official connected to the country’s parliamentary security apparatus has declared that Tehran is prepared to enrich uranium to 90 percent weapons-grade level, if the United States or Israel carry out another military strike against the country.
The warning, stark and deliberate in its language, marks a sharp escalation in Iran’s nuclear posturing.
Ebrahim Rezaei, who serves as spokesman for the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, issued the threat in a post on X written in Persian.
“One of Iran’s options in the event of another attack could be 90 percent enrichment,” he stated, adding that the matter would be subject to parliamentary review.
The choice of platform and language — a public social media declaration rather than a closed diplomatic communication — signals that the warning is intended as much for international audiences as it is for domestic ones.
At present, Iran enriches uranium to 60 percent purity, a level already far beyond what is needed for civilian nuclear energy purposes and one that has drawn sustained international condemnation.
Analysts and nuclear experts have long warned that 60 percent enrichment places Iran dangerously close to the 90 percent threshold required for weapons-grade material, with the technical steps between the two levels being far less significant than the political ones.
The threat arrives against a backdrop of deepening regional instability and a stalled nuclear diplomatic process.
Efforts to revive international agreements limiting Iran’s nuclear activities have repeatedly collapsed, leaving no functional framework to constrain Tehran’s enrichment capabilities through negotiation….Read_More…