Iran will not seek nuclear weapons but will keep enriching, speaker says

Iran will not pursue nuclear weapons but will continue to use and expand its nuclear capabilities, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Friday during a visit to Indonesia.

“Iran will never go toward building a nuclear weapon,” Ghalibaf said. “But using nuclear capacity is our right.”

He added that Iran would continue to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. “We use this knowledge in medicine, agriculture, and the environment,” he said. “Today, the most advanced centrifuges are built by the creative youth of Iran.”

Speaking on the sidelines of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Member States (PUIC) in Jakarta, Ghalibaf said Iran’s nuclear progress is a source of pride and should benefit the Islamic world.

“This nuclear capacity belongs to all the Islamic world,” he said.