The Foreign Ministry of Iran insisted in a briefing on Monday that the nation’s terrorist regime would not pursue nuclear weapons development and would abide by international law on weapons of mass destructions (WMDs).
Adding to concerns that Iran may be preparing to declare itself a nuclear state, a senior adviser to “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Kamal Kharrazi, recently claimed that Tehran could soon change its “nuclear doctrine” in response to Israel’s self-defense operations against the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hamas.
“We have no decision to build a nuclear bomb, but should Iran’s existence be threatened, there will be no choice but to change our military doctrine,” Kharrazi said on Thursday. Kharrazi specified that an incident that would cause Iran to pursue nuclear weapons openly would be an attack by the government of Israel on its nuclear facilities. The Iranian regime considers Israel to be an illegitimate country and openly calls for the genocide of its people.
“Iran remains committed to international treaties regarding the prohibition of weapons of mass destruction and has made no change in its nuclear doctrine,” the state outlet PressTV paraphrased Kan’ani as saying. “Kan’ani said Iran’s principled stance on weapons of mass destruction is based on a fatwa (religious decree) issued by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei which has banned such arms.”
Kan’ani went on to condemn Israel for not being a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Such a fatwa, or Islamic religious edict, does not exist, but Iran regime sympathizers have used rumors of its alleged existence for years to defend allowing Iran to expand its nuclear development. Years of investigations have resulted in no evidence that Khamenei ever documented the issuing of such an edict. On the contrary, a letter by Khamenei’s predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, surfacing in 2006 showed that Khomenei ordered Iran to develop nuclear weapons in 1988.
Despite the lack of evidence that such a fatwa ever existed, and evidence that Iran actually ordered the development of nuclear weapons, President Barack Obama used the alleged “fatwa” as a critical propaganda point to promote the JCPOA.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in remarks this weekend, also apparently meant to temper the effect of Ardestani’s declaration, that Iran remained committed to “establishing a Middle East free of nuclear weapons.” Iran has yet to explain why it is enriching uranium at rates far beyond what is necessary for the development of a peaceful nuclear energy program, however. The IAEA affirmed in January that Iran had “enough nuclear material for several nuclear weapons.”
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