Iran's UN Mission: Western Claims of Tehran's Intention to Build Nuclear Weapons "Big Lie"
The Iranian mission to the United Nations Office in Vienna dismissed claims by the United States and Israel that Tehran has been seeking a nuclear weapon, stressing that repeating the “big lie” will never change the realities on the ground.
“The Nazi propaganda technique of the ‘Big Lie’ – repeat a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth – does not work in the modern age,” the mission said in a post on its X account on Tuesday.It announced that both the UN and its nuclear agency (International Atomic Energy Agency) have confirmed the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program.“There exists no evidence for diversion of nuclear materials by Iran in the nuclear agency reports. On the contrary, there are many reports that all nuclear materials are accounted for,” it added.
The post came in response to recent remarks by US President Donald Trump, who claimed that Iran is still seeking a nuclear weapon after a joint US-Israeli onslaught that stopped earlier this month with a Pakistani-mediated ceasefire.The claims were made after Iran refused to totally abandon its peaceful nuclear program during negotiations with the US in Islamabad that were aimed at permanently ending the war.Iran showed to the world the peaceful nature of its nuclear program by signing the 2015 nuclear accord with six world powers.Tehran has invariably asserted that its nuclear program is aimed at purely peaceful purposes and that had no intention of developing nuclear weapons.Late Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has even issued a fatwa (religious decree) declaring that the acquisition, development, and use of nuclear weapons violate Islamic principles and are therefore forbidden.
The mission said that Trump’s recent assertions even contradict the US intelligence community’s assessment about Iran’s nuclear ambitions.It added that the “Big Lie” about Iran’s race toward a nuclear weapon has been repeated by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for more than 34 years.“(It) has not changed the reality that Iran never opted for a nuclear weapon but insisted on its inalienable rights for peaceful uses of nuclear energy,” it noted.
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