Iran doesn’t believe in nuclear weapons, says deputy FM

KARACHI: Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi has emphasised that his country does not believe in nuclear weapons, a week after Israel launched missile attacks on Iran with its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu making an unsubstantiated claim that Tehran was weeks away from making nuclear warheads.

In a tweet posted by CNN International Anchor Christiane Amanpour, Amanpour said that when she asked Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Takht-Ravanchi whether his country is on the verge of making a nuclear bomb, he repeated what his government has said for decades:

“We do not believe in nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons have no place in our defensive doctrine.”

“In fact,” he stressed, “the world will be a better place without nuclear weapons. But who has nuclear weapons in the Middle East?

The Israeli regime. Who has the most sophisticated weapons? The Americans. So, they are responsible for all the chaos in the world.”