May pursue N-arm, Iran warns West
Iran's intelligence minister has warned the West that his country could push for a nuclear weapon if crippling international sanctions on Tehran remain in place, state television reported Tuesday.
The remarks by Mahmoud Alavi mark a rare occasion that a government official says Iran could reverse its course on the nuclear programme. Tehran has long insisted that the programme is for peaceful purposes only.
A 1990s fatwa, or religious edict, by the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei states that nuclear weapons are forbidden.
"Our nuclear programme is peaceful and the fatwa by the supreme leader has forbidden nuclear weapons, but if they push Iran in that direction, then it wouldn't be Iran's fault but those who pushed it," Alavi was quoted as saying.
"If a cat is cornered, it may
Our nuclear programme is peaceful and the fatwa by the supreme leader has forbidden nuke weapons, but if they push Iran in that direction, then it wouldn't be Iran's fault but those who pushed it
show a kind of behaviour that a free cat would not," he said and added that Iran has no plans to move toward a nuclear weapon under current circumstances.
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