Iranian official confirms country sought to build nuclear weapons
A founder of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards now admits that
the Islamic Republic was seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. This is the
first time any regime official has made such an admission, even as
another report claims that one of Iran’s most radical clerics was the
spiritual overseer of the nuclear weapons program.
“We pursued ways in order to gain nuclear arms,” Gen. Mohsen Rafiqdoost told the regime’s Mehr News on Saturday. “I asked Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] what his opinion was. He said do not pursue atoms, and we stopped.”
But that claim falls short of the truth. In the late 1980s,
a letter by Mohsen Rezaei, then the chief commander of the Guards,
asking Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Revolution, for approval of
the nuclear bomb program was revealed. It showed the leader had approved
of seeking nuclear weapons.
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