Iran will promise UN not to seek nuclear bomb, semi-official agency reports

Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency quotes Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi as saying that Tehran plans to submit a written promise to that effect, but does not say when; In 2005Ayatollah Khamenei issued a religious edict 'banning production, storage and use of nuclear weapons'.

By The Associated Press | Mar.12, 2013 | 5:53 PM

Iran plans to submit a written promise to the United Nations that it will not seek nuclear weapons, the semi-official Mehr news agency said Tuesday.

"Iran plans to declare in the UN that it will never go after nuclear bombs," the agency quoted Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi as saying. Rahimi did not say when the promise would be delivered.

Rahimi charged that Western actions of late aim to thwart Iran's "scientific progress" referring to the several rounds of sanctions aimed at the nuclear program, that have impacted heavily on Iran's economy.

Iran has repeatedly denied West suspicions that it is pursuing weapons construction under cover of its nuclear program.

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