On Wednesday, Iran reiterated that its nuclear weapon policy hasn’t changed and that it still has a religious edict, known as a fatwa, against developing weapons of mass destruction.
“In regard to the topic of weapons of mass destruction, we have the fatwa,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani. The fatwa issued by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declares that weapons of mass destruction are forbidden by Islam.
Kanani’s comments came after an advisor to Khamenei, Kamal Kharrazi, said earlier this week that Iran has the “technical” means to develop a nuclear weapon but hasn’t decided to do so.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Kharrazi said, “Iran’s nuclear capacities are great, but, as it has mentioned many times, Iran’s nuclear technology is completely peaceful and under continued monitoring of the International Atomic Energy Agency.”
Iran has followed the policy against nuclear weapons for decades. The fatwa was originally issued by Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who rejected proposals to develop weapons of mass destruction when facing chemical weapons attacks from Saddam Hussein’s forces during the Iran-Iraq war.
The Iranian comments on nuclear weapons come as talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, are stalled. The Biden administration has taken a hardline on the negotiations and refuses to lift the sanctions Tehran wants to restore the agreement.
But, it is not irreversible…!
Everyone needs some flexibility netman…
Note that this prohibition applies to chem and bio weapons too … now, who is the most moral army in the ME again?
It ain’t the one who says it is!
I’m not sure that I can see or understand the Biden Admin. strategy here, if in fact there is a strategy at all. “Negotiations” are a process that occurs all the time in politics and geopolitics but in order to proceed, everyone needs to get their butts to the table and talk. It looks like Pres. Biden is playing hard ball but one must ask the question: Why? Iran wants the sanctions lifted and they seem willing to talk some turkey but Biden and Company seems MIA. First we had to deal with the ineptitudes of “The Donald”, now we have to deal with hardline, seemingly immovable positions of Biden but his purposes remain unclear. These folks need to get off their asses and get to work to make this deal happen but it takes two willing sides to get it done…
We must ask the question: Is Biden ‘neo-conning’ us?
ByeDone’s taking his marching order from IsraHell, Donna. Remember, he’s “bone deep” with the Zios.
I certainly trust the Iranian leadership’s religious convictions more that that of our own Fearless Leader, supposedly a practicing Catholic.
Having been raised Catholic myself, I’m fairly sure I recall a Commandment stating “ Thou shalt not kill”.
And ByeDone’s been a killing machine his entire career.