By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON – Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian stressed on Friday that his country has never sought to develop nuclear weapons.
According to a statement by his office, president made the remarks at a ceremony in Tehran to mark the 46th anniversary of the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution,.
The ceremony was attended by foreign ambassadors and representatives of international organizations in Tehran.
Pezeshkian said, “We do not seek (to develop) nuclear weapons. Iran’s (Supreme) Leader (Ali Khamenei) has explicitly declared this by issuing a fatwa (religious decree).”
He verified that Iran does not intend to develop nuclear weapons is not difficult at all.
He added “They (inspectors) have so far come and investigated it whenever they have wanted, and from now on, can come and check that again a hundred times. We will never go after developing nuclear weapons.”
The remarks came as US President Donald Trump took an executive action to restore the “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, aimed to prevent the country from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on social media platform X that “the so-called maximum pressure is a failed experience,” warning repeating this would only cause “maximum resistance” by Iran, media reported.
Iran signed a nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with world powers in July 2015, accepted restrictions on its nuclear programme in exchange for lifting sanctions.
US withdrew from the agreement in May 2018 and reinstated sanctions, prompted Iran to scale back some of its nuclear commitments.
The efforts to revive the JCPOA commenced in April 2021 in Vienna, despite multiple rounds of negotiations, no substantial progress has been reported since the last talks in August 2022.
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