By Nukewatch Staff
In Iran, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has again prohibited Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Iran has for decades declared that nuclear weapons production would violate the principles of the government’s holy book The Quran. Speaking in Tehran on January 21, the day after the presidential inauguration, Ahmadreza Pourkhaghan, the head of Iran’s Armed Forces Judiciary, said, “The late Imam Khomeini did not allow the use of chemical weapons or any illegal and unconventional weapons, even against enemy forces,” and therefore, “it is based on this doctrine that the Supreme Leader does not permit the armed forces of the Islamic Republic to develop nuclear weapons.”
In 2019, the radio broadcast The World reported that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, “said that Iran was not looking to acquire nuclear weapons for a surprising reason — that they were illegal under Islamic law.” In apparent apostasy, on February 8, Iranian military commanders took the extraordinarily unusual step of urging the Ayatollah to revoke the religious fatwa, says the London Independent, which reported that the regime’s military leaders asserted that Iran must have nuclear weapons “to survive.” — London Independent, Feb. 8, 2025; Newsweek, Jan. 22, 2025; The World, May 30, 2019
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