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A founder of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards now admits that the Islamic Republic was seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. This is the first time any regime official has made such an admission, even as another report claims that one of Iran’s most radical clerics was the spiritual overseer of the nuclear weapons program.
“We pursued ways in order to gain nuclear arms,” Gen. Mohsen Rafiqdoost told the regime’s Mehr News on Saturday. “I asked Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] what his opinion was. He said do not pursue atoms, and we stopped.”
But that claim falls short of the truth. In the late 1980s, a letter by Mohsen Rezaei, then the chief commander of the Guards, asking Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Revolution, for approval of the nuclear bomb program was revealed. It showed the leader had approved of seeking nuclear weapons.
Rafiqdoost became the first minister of the Guards and was in charge of purchasing arms on the black market.
Iranian officials have for a long time denied that there ever was a nuclear bomb program and have consistently insisted that the country’s nuclear program is for peaceful purposes to help feed its only existing nuclear power plant and ones the country plans to build.
Read more: dailycaller.com...
This author, who spied for the CIA in the Revolutionary Guards, revealed in the book “A Time to Betrays Saddam Hussein was trying to acquire nuclear weapons.s first centrifuges.
Xcathdra
Iranian official confirms country sought to build nuclear weapons
“We pursued ways in order to gain nuclear arms,” Gen. Mohsen Rafiqdoost told the regime’s Mehr News on Saturday. “I asked Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] what his opinion was. He said do not pursue atoms, and we stopped.”
GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by Xcathdra
Also, what's the point of the article? Even if it shows that the guy lied as an anecdote it doesn't show that they are and have in fact been building.
Xcathdra
reply to post by DupontDeux
That's not my doing.. Per T&C I used the articles exact headline.
OccamsRazor04
reply to post by dazbog
You just proved you have zero idea how things work. Do some contemplation and if you actually think you will be amazed how wrong you are.
OccamsRazor04
reply to post by dazbog
Think NK being impervious to attack no matter what they do ... wonder why ....
OccamsRazor04
reply to post by dazbog
Your post proves my initial point that you have zero understanding, and it seems you just aren't able to understand if you can't figure out what NK means or 'they'.
Everything you need is there.