Iran has dropped the fig leaf of a fatwa on nuclear weapons
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As red herrings go, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s “fatwa , or religious ruling, against nukes has grown funky with age. But that hasn’t stopped officials in Tehran from airing it when convenient, or kept their counterparts in Washington from breathing it in.
First floated in 2003, the fatwa surfaced again this week when Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said Iran would develop a nuclear weapon if the US and other Western nations kept up economic and political pressure on the regime. “The supreme leader clearly said in his fatwa that producing nuclear weapons is against religious law and the Islamic Republic will not pursue it and considers it forbidden, Alavi said on Iranian state TV. “But [if] they push Iran in that direction, it would not be Iran’s fault but the fault of those who pushed Iran.
بايدن يمكن أن ينتهج نهجا مختلفا عن ترامب وأوباما بشأن إيران
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بايدن يرفض مقايضة العقوبات بالتفاوض مع إيران
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