The probability of an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities remains low, but any potential damage will be "quickly compensated," State Atomic Energy Agency spokesman Behruz Kamalvandi said on Wednesday, as quoted by Reuters.
After Iran's missile attack on Israel on October 1, there was speculation that Israel might strike Iran's nuclear facilities, as it has long threatened to do.
"We have always taken these threats seriously," Kamalvandi said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement on Tuesday that Israel would listen to the United States but decide its actions according to its own national interest.
The statement was attached to a Washington Post article that said Netanyahu told President Joe Biden's administration that Israel would strike Iranian military targets, not nuclear or oil targets.
Biden has said he would not support an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, and oil markets are tense over the prospect of an Israeli strike on Iran's oil fields.
Kamalvandi told Nournews that any attack on Iran's nuclear facilities remains unlikely, and that if it were to happen, the damage would likely be minimal and quickly repaired by Iran.
"We have planned a way that if they do something stupid, the damage will be minimal," Kamalvandi said.
The Iranian spokesman added that the UN nuclear watchdog and the international community must condemn any threat or attack against nuclear sites.