Iran's top security official says Trump's strikes on Iran have raised, not lowered, the global case for nuclear weapons, and hints Tehran could revisit its own non-nuclear posture. The remarks carry added weight because they come from the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and land as Washington escalates economic pressure on Tehran.
Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, has suggested Tehran could reconsider its longstanding rejection of nuclear weapons, arguing that US strikes on Iran have strengthened the global case for an atomic bomb as a deterrent. Speaking in an interview with state broadcaster IRIB, reported by ANI, Rezaei said that instead of nuclear security, Trump had created "nuclear insecurity," and argued the strikes pushed the world's desire for the bomb higher once other countries saw that IAEA membership and NPT compliance failed to stop an American strike.
A security chief with new standing
Rezaei's position gives the remarks particular weight. He was appointed SNSC secretary on August 9, replacing Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, in the same decree naming him Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei's direct representative on the council. A former commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guards, he told Iranian media in May that continued threats could push Tehran to withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty altogether.
The comments also land alongside President Trump's economic pressure campaign against Iran, which he has called the most crushing economic operation ever taken against a country and which targets oil smuggling networks, financial transfers, exchange houses, ship registries and front companies. Trump has separately said Iran will never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.
Echoes from Iran's parliament
Similar signals surfaced earlier from a different corner of Iran's government. In July, parliamentary spokesperson Ebrahim Rezaei warned that a new all-out US attack could push Tehran to reconsider its nuclear doctrine and even withdraw from the NPT, while Economic Commission member Hossein Samsami described the country's predicament as an existential war that demands a fresh look at nuclear posture. Unlike Mohsen Rezaei, neither sits on the Supreme National Security Council or holds a Revolutionary Guards command role.
The rhetoric adds a fresh geopolitical risk premium to oil markets already pricing in Strait of Hormuz disruption and an active blockade. Separately, analysts remain split on how to read Rezaei's rise and rhetoric: some see his appointment as domestic cover meant to give any eventual settlement with Washington military credibility, while others, including academics cited by Al Jazeera, view it as evidence Iran's security establishment is shifting toward offensive deterrence. Iran's actual nuclear decisions still flow through a much smaller circle of power that ends with the Supreme Leader, who has not publicly addressed the question.
Sources: Investinglive, Crypto Briefing
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