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TEHRAN (FNA)- The world powers accepted the Fatwa (religious decree) issued by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei against the production and use of nuclear weapons as a confidence-building measure and criteria during their recent talks with Tehran in Kazakhstan, a senior MP said on Wednesday.
"(During the Kazakhstan talks last week) one of the issues discussed was the idea of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution on the haram (religiously forbidden) nature of the production of atomic weapons," member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Esmayeel Kowsari said in an interview with Iran-based Arabic-language al-Alam news channel.
"Even other countries which possess atomic weapons and nuclear warheads should also be disarmed and should dismantle these weapons since we believe such weapons are illegal and against religion, and this issue was discussed in Almaty talks and was accepted by the Group5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany)," he added.
On February 22, 2012, Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic Republic considers the pursuit and possession of nuclear weapons "a grave sin" from every logical, religious and theoretical standpoint.
In January, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said Ayatollah Khamenei's fatwa is binding for Iran, adding, "There is nothing more important in defining the framework for our nuclear activities than the Leader's fatwa."
Fars News Agency :: World Powers Accept Ayatollah Khamenei's Fatwa against N. Weapons as Criteria
"(During the Kazakhstan talks last week) one of the issues discussed was the idea of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution on the haram (religiously forbidden) nature of the production of atomic weapons," member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Esmayeel Kowsari said in an interview with Iran-based Arabic-language al-Alam news channel.
"Even other countries which possess atomic weapons and nuclear warheads should also be disarmed and should dismantle these weapons since we believe such weapons are illegal and against religion, and this issue was discussed in Almaty talks and was accepted by the Group5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany)," he added.
On February 22, 2012, Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic Republic considers the pursuit and possession of nuclear weapons "a grave sin" from every logical, religious and theoretical standpoint.
In January, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said Ayatollah Khamenei's fatwa is binding for Iran, adding, "There is nothing more important in defining the framework for our nuclear activities than the Leader's fatwa."
Fars News Agency :: World Powers Accept Ayatollah Khamenei's Fatwa against N. Weapons as Criteria
