Feb 12 2013

CommonDreams: Iran Calling for All Nuclear Weapons To Be Destroyed

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Following news of a successful North Korean nuclear weapons test on Tuesday, officials from Iran called for the end to all atomic weapons around the world.

Iranian workers in front of the Bushehr nuclear power plant. (Stringer/Iran/Reuters) “We need to come to the point where no country has any nuclear weapons and at the same time all weapons of mass destruction and nuclear arms need to be destroyed,” foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told state news agency IRNA.

Mehmanparast also said that much of Iran’s higher-grade enriched uranium is once again being converted into reactor fuel to be used for energy production.

Iran has been hit by a series of U.S. lead sanctions and continual threats of war from Israel over claims that its nuclear energy program is being used to develop nuclear weapons, despite a consistent lack of viable evidence. The U.S. and Israel, on the other hand, both have substantial nuclear weapons stockpiles—the U.S. with the greatest arsenal in the world.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Monday that Tehran is moving closer to the “red line” of nuclear weapon capability.

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