Khamenei has banned nuclear weapons, Iran president says
Iran would not develop nuclear weapons because Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has banned them, President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday, adding that “the religious leader of a society cannot lie like politicians.”
“When he announces that we will not have a nuclear weapon, it means we won’t have it,” Pezeshkian said ahead of a third round of nuclear talks with the US, which has continued to accuse Tehran of seeking a nuclear weapon.
Khamenei issued a fatwa, an Islamic religious decree, banning the development of nuclear weapons in the early 2000s.
