A senior Iranian cleric said on Friday that uranium enrichment in Iran has continued and will continue “to spite the enemy,” insisting the country’s nuclear program is a national right.
“Worrying about Iran having a nuclear bomb is not what’s troubling Trump, because he knows we don’t have one — not out of fear, but because weapons of mass destruction have no place in our religion,” said Ahmad Khatami, the Friday prayer Imam in Tehran, according to remarks reported by ISNA.
“They are worried about nuclear technology,” he said. “But this technology has been indigenized in Iran, and we have enriched uranium inside the country as needed — and we continue to do so.”
Khatami rejected calls to curb the nuclear program, saying: “To spite the enemy, we have enriched and we are enriching. It is a gross mistake to say enrichment should not happen in Iran. Nuclear energy is our absolute right.”
He also warned foreign critics to “watch their words,” and said enemies of Iran “can’t do a damn thing.”
