Mehdi Mohammadi, an adviser to Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said continued sanctions could make preemptive war necessary, raising the stakes in Tehran's unresolved talks with Washington.
In a Telegram post, Mohammadi said the United States had proposed giving President Donald Trump about two weeks to decide on military action.
He described a “comprehensive pre-emptive war” as necessary if sanctions continued.
Separately, The Guardian reported that senior Iranian officials see further U.S. strikes or tighter economic pressure as possibilities, citing Mohammadi's assessment. The report said Trump had, for now, chosen economic measures and a tighter blockade on Iranian oil exports. The Guardian separately assessed that Iran's leadership might eventually see the current impasse as unworkable and consider preemptive action necessary.
Mohammadi has also warned that a miscalculation could trigger an Iran-Israel clash, EconoTimes previously reported.
