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Iranian nuclear program fully in line with NPT: Shamkhani

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Aug 7, IRNA -- Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics 
Rear-Admiral Ali Shamkhani said on Saturday that Iranian nuclear 
program is fully in line with the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). 
Speaking to reporters on the occasion of the Journalists Day, 
Shamkhani said that acquiring nuclear technology is Iran`s legitimate 
right adding that Iran has no hidden activities concerning to its 
nuclear program. 
"Iran is exercising full cooperation with the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) as a confidence-building measure. Iran is doing 
so honestly in line with its international obligations," Shamkhani 
said. 
"Non-civilian application of nuclear energy runs counter to the 
Islamic tenets and Iran regards such an action as illegitimate," the 
defense minister said. 
"Israel is fabricating the claims on Iranian nuclear program to 
cover up international concerns about its own stockpiles of nuclear 
arms," Shamkhani said. 
President Mohammad Khatami said last month that Iran believes that
possessing nuclear arms makes the countries more vulnerable and it is 
no longer regarded as a means for military strength. 
Iranian representative to IAEA Hossein Mousavian said that Iranian
religious leaders and Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution 
Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei have specified manufacturing nuclear arms
as `forbidden in Islam` (Haram) and Iran does not see nuclear weapon 
as means of military strength. 
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