Tehran – The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has emphasized that the Iranian nation has never sought nuclear weapons and will prove to the world that nuclear weapons do not bring about power.

In a meeting with the Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization and its officials as well as a number of nuclear scientists, the Leader stated that a nation by relying on its natural and human talents and capacities is able to crush the power that is based on nuclear weapons.

He evaluated the nuclear technology and scientific achievements as being related to national interests and the country’s future and stated that a few countries that have dominated the world unjustly and through scientific monopoly and call themselves the global community are fearful of the breaking of the scientific monopoly by other nations and part of their hues and cries against the Iranian nation is caused by this very issue.

He described the use of science for bullying others as the biggest crime against humanity and stressed that there will be no grounds left for the hegemonic domination by world powers provided that the nations manage to attain progress independently in the nuclear, aerospace, technology, scientific and industrial fields.

Ayatollah Khamenei termed these hues and cries by domineering powers as being aimed at hampering the Iranian nation’s scientific progress and added that there is no doubt that in those countries, organs that are tasked with making and adopting decisions know very well that Iran seeks no nuclear weapons. This is due to the fact that the Islamic Republic of Iran considers as a major sin the possession of nuclear weapons from the intellectual, theoretical and jurisprudential points of view and is of the view that keeping such weapons is futile, detrimental and risky.

He further described the nuclear issue as a pretext while underlining that the sanctions have existed since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution even though the nuclear issue is related to the past few years. Therefore the problem of domineering powers is a nation that has decided to be independent and rejects tyranny and has unveiled the true nature of the oppressors and has conveyed this message to world nations that it has managed to accomplish this goal and it will continue to do so.