Iran's Atomic Agency Claims Israel's Attack Could Not Target Nuclear Facilities

Israeli airstrikes destroyed refugee tents at the Syuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in the Gaza Strip while refugees were sleeping on Monday, October 14 in the morning. (X @UNRWA)

JAKARTA - Iran's Atomic Energy Agency claims Israeli attacks are highly unlikely to target its country's nuclear facilities.

"It is highly unlikely," said Iranian Atomic Energy Agency spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi in a video interview with news agency Nournewsn, quoted from AFP, Thursday, October 17.

Kamalvandi insists it will not happen.

"If an attack occurs on the main site: make sure the attack doesn't work," he said.

However, he said, if that happened then Israel would suffer losses due to the impact of the damage.

"And if they (Israel) do something as stupid as that, it is highly unlikely that they will cause serious damage to us and even if we assume that they can cause damage, the country can quickly compensate for its losses," he said.

Kamalvandi conveyed this in the midst of Israel which confirmed that it would retaliate against the 200 Iranian missiles against Israel on October 1.