Iranian Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a fatwa barring the nation from the production of nuclear weapons, making it not only illegal under secular law but also religiously banned.
Foreign Ministry officials say that the West needs to understand the broad significance of a fatwa in the religiously dominated society, saying it ought to effectively end the question of Iran ever producing atomic weapons.
“There is nothing higher than the exalted supreme leader’s fatwa to define the framework of our activities,” noted foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast, adding that the fatwa was absolutely “binding” on all Iranians.
Though Western officials have no real evidence to back up their suspicions, they have repeatedly claimed they are convinced Iran’s civilian nuclear program, which is legal under the terms of its IAEA safeguards agreement, is potentially aimed at gaining the capability of producing a nuclear weapon. Iran has denied this, and the additional step of making the production of nuclear arms a mortal sin is going to make the allegations even more difficult to continue to justify.
This too will fall on deaf ears.
Obama and Isreal only believe the worst because they are the worst and paint everyone else with the same tainted brush with which they paint themselves.
Being rotten to the core they cannot see the truth in anything that is not wrapped in their own distorted views.
God Help America
Well to be honest they don't believe Iran is making nukes at all. They know it's not true, but they want to cripple Iran anyway, regardless of the death toll required. That's just how sociopaths behave.
I too forswear locking princesses in towers, commanding winged apes, scaring munchkins, burning scarecrows, intercourse with The Devil, …
Please relay that message to the USraeli inquisitors.
The question arises: what more could one ask of any country than to embed their intentions into some form of constitution or equivalent?
Of course the intention from the challenger here is to prolong inspections, increase demands, find more question marks ('dig deeper and you'll always find something to wonder about again'), send in some spy material, endlessly discuss evidence and interpret everything always in all possible lights.
In the all too familiar world of lawyers and diplomats nobody ever wins but the lawyers and diplomats. Truth becoming s a by-product but sometimes it does happen when pigs accidentally fly…
I can understand why our government doesn't buy into this…they don't give a crap about our own laws, let alone our Constitution, so naturally they expect every other government to be just as slimy and dishonest.
You expect an "irreligious" bunch of murdering sociopaths to accept a religious pronouncement? They don't give a damn how sincere you are when they've a mind to kill you.