Iran lawmaker calls for attack on Israeli nuclear plant at Dimona

An Iranian MP on Sunday called for a military strike on Israel's largest nuclear facility in retaliation for the ongoing attacks on Iran's installations.

"Now it's time to attack Dimona; it is the centre of the criminals' nuclear activities," Mojtaba Zarei, a member of the parliamentary national security committee, wrote in a post on X.

"You attacked our nuclear facilities, so we will attack your nuclear centres, of course, with a two-ton warhead!"

Zarei was referring to the Negev Nuclear Research Centre near the city of Dimona, which sits at the heart of Israel's secretive nuclear program.

Since completing the reactor in the 1960s, the country is thought to have produced dozens of undeclared nuclear warheads.

Israel has targeted several nuclear sites in Iran since launching its unprecedented aerial campaign on Friday morning, including its main enrichment plant at Natanz and a facility in Isfahan.

As many as 12 nuclear scientists are believed to have been assassinated, while the Israeli military claims to have struck nuclear-related sites in Tehran.

The UN's nuclear watchdog has confirmed damage to the Natanz and Isfahan facilities but says it has not detected an increase in radiation levels.

In a move that is likely to increase tensions with the West, Iranian MPs on the security committee are calling for the country to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in response to Israel's aggression.

"Now is the best time to withdraw from the NPT. The NPT was supposed to provide our security, not cause insecurity," committee spokesperson Ebrahim Rezaei wrote on social media.

While Iran is a member of the NPT, Israel has always refused to sign and is believed to secretly possess between 80 and 400 nuclear weapons.

The Israeli military on Sunday indicated it was preparing for further strikes and instructed civilians to evacuate from areas close to nuclear sites.

Iran has expressed outrage at Israel's actions and called on the international community to condemn the attacks.

The Foreign Ministry has refused to continue the nuclear negotiations with the US, calling them "meaningless" and accusing the Trump administration of supporting Israel's attack. A sixth round of talks planned for Sunday has been cancelled.

Iran wants a diplomatic solution to the crisis but will not "accept irrational demands under pressure or... sit at the negotiating table while the Zionist regime continues its attacks", President Masoud Pezeshkian told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Saturday.

Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Saturday that the country will reduce cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and will no longer share information about measures taken to protect its nuclear programme.

Israel has tried to justify its attacks by claiming that Iran is on the cusp of producing a nuclear weapon, an allegation that Tehran has long denied. US intelligence in March said it does not believe that Iran is building a bomb.

A report by the IAEA on Thursday declared that Iran had breached its NPT obligations by failing to declare nuclear material.