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 Iranian hard-liners are increasingly calling for Tehran to develop nuclear weapons and abandon a decades-old religious prohibition against such weapons.

They also want to withdraw from an international nonproliferation treaty following devastating U.S. and Israeli military strikes, the Financial Times reported Monday.

The growing demands mark a dramatic shift in Iran’s nuclear debate following the Feb. 28 killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had long maintained that developing nuclear weapons violated Islamic law.

His successor and son, Mojtaba Khamenei, has not publicly reaffirmed that prohibition, opening the door for hardline politicians, lawmakers and analysts to argue that nuclear weapons are essential to the Islamic Republic’s survival.

“The latest military confrontations showed that achieving nuclear weapons for Iran is not an ambition, but a necessity more important than bread,” Davoud Modarresian, a political activist close to Iranian hard-liners, wrote this month.

According to the FT, some regime insiders believe the war has fundamentally changed attitudes toward acquiring nuclear weapons, particularly as President Donald Trump continues to demand that Tehran dismantle its nuclear program..........more..........