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Supreme Leader: Nuclear weapons do not bring power

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Feb 22, IRNA -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that sense of self-respect and national dignity is the outcome of Iran's achievements in science and technology.

In a meeting with nuclear scientists, the Supreme Leader said that Iranian nation has decided to present a model for independence, resistance to pressures of the bullying powers and capability to break scientific monopoly of the arrogant powers.

Ayatollah Khamenei made it clear that the Iranian nation has never been and will never be after nuclear weapons and has decided to prove that nuclear weapons do not bring power.

'A nation with reliance upon high human and natural resources is capable of breaking nuclear weapon states,' the Supreme Leader said.

Ayatollah Khamenei said that the efficient and intelligent manpower, and men of initiatives are God-given blessings, adding that although progress in nuclear technology has different aspects, its major aspect is giving a sense of national dignity and self-respect to the Iranian nation.

The Supreme Leader said that the Islamic Revolution has been the proponent of national dignity and contrary to the propagandistic claims that Iranian youth cannot have a say in science and technology, they have proved that they can.

Ayatollah Khamenei said that the achievements of nuclear technology serve national interest, adding that certain countries, which have monopolized science and technology and forged dominance on the world have stepped up their anti-Iran propaganda for fear of losing their monopoly.

The Supreme Leader said that misusing science for bullying is the greatest crime against humanity, adding that if nations managed independently to make progress in nuclear know-how, aerospace, science and technology, there will remain no ground for arrogant powers to continue their bullying and domineering policies. .

He said that the main goal of the global arrogance in its anti-Iran hue and cry is to stop scientific progress of the Iranian nation.

'There is no doubt that the decision making apparatus of the global arrogance is well aware of the fact that Iran renounces nuclear weapons and its religious belief prohibits it from possessing weapons of mass destruction. Iran believes that stockpiling such weapons is futile, dangerous and deadly,' the Supreme Leader said.

The Leader said that the Islamic Republic of Iran wants to prove that possessing nuclear weapons does not bring power and Iran believes in breaking the power of the nuclear weapon states and will do so.

Elsewhere in his address, Ayatollah Khamenei said that the pressure, sanctions, threats and acts of terror against Iranian scientists will make Iran stronger, adding that such tactics indicated the weakness of the global arrogance.

The Leader said that sanctions have been imposed since the victory of the Islamic Revolution and they are not something new.

'Nuclear issue is a matter brought up in recent years, but, the sanctions have been in force over the past three decades. They have problem with a nation which has stood on its own feet to be independent and get rid of the bullying powers.'

Prior to the Supreme Leader's remarks, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Fereydoun Abbasi presented a report on achievements in the field of nuclear technology and Iran's indigenous know-how in the medical sector for production of radioisotopes and medicines for cancer patients and applications in agriculture.

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