Source: China Daily
TEHERAN – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran has never been after producing or using weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), the official IRNA news agency reported.
In a message to a ceremony held in Iran’s western city of Boroujerd “to commemorate 8,000 martyears of chemical attacks” by the Iraqis during Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), Ahmadinejad said that based on the teachings of Islam and the religious orders of the Iranian Supreme Leader, production and use of such weapons are forbidden, said the report.
Iran believes that annihilation of all WMDs is a sacred goal which will guarantee security and safety of the human kind, hence all world states should cooperate to attain this objective, he was quoted as saying.
The Islamic republic has always insisted on a world clear of any kind of weapons of mass destruction, the Iranian president added. Read more.
Quoting from BBC: Iran nuclear investigation accord ‘expected soon’
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has said it is close to signing an accord with Iran after his talks in Tehran.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief said the deal could increase Tehran’s co-operation with IAEA investigations into its atomic activity.
Yukiya Amano said he expected a deal with Iran to be signed “quite soon”.
The US and its allies accuse Iran of developing a nuclear bomb, but Tehran says its purpose is peaceful.
“[A] decision was made to conclude and sign the agreement… I can say it will be signed quite soon,” Mr Amano said shortly after arriving back in Vienna, where the IAEA is based.
He said that after holding talks in the Iranian capital with the country’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, “we understand each other’s position better” though differences remained on “some details”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18157944
Sounds logical (that everyone should give up WMD).
Unfortunately it will not happen…