| Ayatollah vows Iranian nuclear work will go on
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MSNBC News Services
updated 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran will not bow to Western pressure and stop its nuclear program, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday.
"Iran is not after nuclear weapons. It is after peacefully using nuclear energy ... we will follow this path and ... will reach it," Khamenei said in a speech broadcast live on state television.
"No wise nation" is interested in nuclear weapons, he said.
He spoke at a ceremony today honoring the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic republic. Khamenei has the final say on all matters in the country.
The chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, said on Monday Iran seemed to be holding back information needed to clarify intelligence reports that it researched nuclear bombs in secret and he demanded "full disclosure" by Tehran.
Iran has rejected the intelligence as baseless, forged or irrelevant.
"Today no logical person or officials go after nuclear weapons. The Iranian nation oppose these kind of weapons," Khamenei said in the speech to mark the 19th anniversary of the death of late revolutionary leader.
more ... Iran: Nuclear work will go on - Iran - MSNBC.com | Kind of like no wise nation of logical person would use suicide as a weapon, or deny the Holocaust?
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