According to Al Jazeera, Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, stated in a national television broadcast that Iran "will not wait for the US to strike first" and expressed suspicion that the U.S. might use diplomacy to buy time for another attack. The video cited by Al Jazeera was released by the Fars News Agency. The above represents the Iranian warning and its assessment of U.S. intentions; available materials do not indicate that Iran has issued an order for a preemptive strike.