News ID: 259961
Published: 0303 GMT October 09, 2019

Iran’s Leader: Developing, stockpiling, using nukes religiously forbidden

Iran’s Leader: Developing, stockpiling, using nukes religiously forbidden

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Iran will never spend its resources on developing nuclear weapons as the religion of Islam prohibits their proliferation, stockpiling and using.

In a meeting with academic elites and top scientific talents on Wednesday morning, Ayatollah Khamenei said that science unlocks the true benefits of knowledge only when it is paired with the right understanding of humanitarianism, Press TV reported.

"In the case of the key and very beneficial nuclear science...  when it was paired with a thirst for more power, it resulted in the creation of the nuclear weapon and turned into a major threat to the world and humanity," he said.

"Although we have always had the ability to tread this path, we declared it haram (forbidden by religion) according to the verdict of the beloved Islam and therefore there is no reason for us to expend our resources on developing and stockpiling a weapon that is absolutely prohibited (by Islam) to use," the Leader asserted.

In 2015, Iran and world powers singed a nuclear deal under which Iran put limits on its nuclear activities in return for sanctions relief. The US and its allies claim that Iran had been developing nuclear weapons. Tehran signed the agreement and let international inspectors to monitor its nuclear activities in order to make it clear that it has not been seeking nukes.

However, Washington unilaterally withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018 and reimposed the illegal sanctions; a move that was condemned by the world.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Ayatollah Khamenei said that while Iran sees no shame in learning new sciences from others, it does not want its universities to replicate the American education system and copy the "wrong Western culture."


The Leader advised the Iranian officials to protect the young elite generation from becoming subjected to the phenomenon of brain drain that is being encouraged by certain groups.







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