Iran Warns It May Expel UN Nuclear Inspectors If Threats Persist
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Iran will consider expelling international nuclear inspectors and transferring its stocks of enriched uranium to secret locations if foreign military threats continue, a top aide to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said.
Ali Shamkhani, the former secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council who now advises Khamenei on political matters, said on X that “continuing external threats” that put Iran in a “military attack” posture could lead the Islamic Republic to “take measures such as the expulsion of International Atomic Energy Inspectors and ending cooperation with it.”