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Ayatollah Khamenei: The Only Reason We Don’t Have Nuclear Weapons Is Our Muslim Faith
Jewish Press ^ | June 11, 2023 | David Israel

Posted on 06/13/2023 6:35:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Sunday: “We don’t want to go toward nuclear weapons because of our Islamic principles, and if it were not for this, they (the West) could not have stopped us, just as they couldn’t stop our nuclear progress so far.”

According to the Diplomacy, Law, Police forum, Islam demarcates specific limits with reference to the use of force during times of war. Although the concept of nuclear weapons did not exist during the revelation of Islam, several Quranic verses do indicate a clear prohibition when it comes to indiscriminate killings of innocent lives (The Islamic Laws of War and Nuclear Weapons, Jan.2023).

But, of course, the Islamic Republic has collaborated since its inception with countless regimes and groups that practices mass murder of civilians, so maybe the Ayatollah should consider taking a refresher course?

Khamenei spoke during a meeting with a group of nuclear experts and officials in Tehran. He said Iran’s enemies have created a nuclear challenge for the Islamic Republic for 20 years because they know that progress in the nuclear industry is the key to Iran’s scientific progress.

He argued that the nuclear industry is important to support the progress and capabilities of the country in technical, economic, health, and other fields, to make life better for the people. The nuclear industry “is important for this reason as well as in terms of the global and international political weight of the country,” he said.

Khamenei said that parties opposing Iran’s nuclear activities are untruthful when it comes to abiding by their promises. He said governments negotiating with Iran or the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have made promises over the years, but they have failed to abide by them. “We found out over the past 20 years who was trustworthy and who was not,” the Supreme Leader said.

Khamenei said that Iran is now producing 1,000 megawatts of nuclear power, adding that the country should seek to reach a target of 20,000 MW in electricity generation through nuclear technology. He also called on the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) to work on low-capacity nuclear power plants, which have proven successful in other countries.

Last week, the director general of the Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said that for the first time, his agency installed devices to monitor enrichment at the facilities in Frodo and Natanz. Grossi explained that the installation of the devices will help quickly detect changes in the enrichment levels that these facilities. However, he admitted that “this is only part of what we want to happen. What needs to happen now is a process that will lead to the realization of all the commitments contained in the joint statement between Iran and the agency without further delay.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Iran; Iraq; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hudna; iran; iraq; israel; nukes; russia; waronterror; weapons
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A man of true forbearance.
1 posted on 06/13/2023 6:35:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

taqiyya


2 posted on 06/13/2023 6:38:16 PM PDT by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: nickcarraway

“Come on Marge, it works for all Ayatollahs.”🤣


3 posted on 06/13/2023 6:42:12 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF ADCMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
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To: nickcarraway

A kinder, gentler Religion of Pieces.


4 posted on 06/13/2023 6:44:00 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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To: nickcarraway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBGPw_LBiRA


5 posted on 06/13/2023 6:45:17 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: nickcarraway

They don’t want them, because if they wanted them they would have them, but they are going to keep developing them, so that they can have them, which they want, but until they do, they don’t.

It’s all very clear. The ayatollah could run as a Democrat.


6 posted on 06/13/2023 6:48:29 PM PDT by Dragonspirit (CNN is the enemy. Ashli Babbitt is the hero.)
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To: nickcarraway
They can't ever use one on Israel, or Tehran, Mecca, Medina and every one of at least 13 Arab capitals + the Aswan Dam will receive a response in kind from Israeli missiles and subs. "The Sampson Option."


7 posted on 06/13/2023 6:58:34 PM PDT by montag813
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To: nickcarraway

Well that and Mossad keeps assassinating their nuclear scientists and blowing up their nuclear sites. 😏


8 posted on 06/13/2023 7:11:41 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: nickcarraway

He lies almost as well as the White House Spoxidiot.


9 posted on 06/13/2023 7:26:04 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: nickcarraway

Interesting. What’s Pakistan’s excuse?


10 posted on 06/13/2023 7:30:58 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Da Coyote

Gin Sucki and the Kewpie Doll.


11 posted on 06/13/2023 7:31:33 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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To: verum ago

EXACTLY-—HOW MANY INNOCENT LIVES DID THEY TAKE ON 9/11??


12 posted on 06/13/2023 7:46:08 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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“Interesting. What’s Pakistan’s excuse?”

[WWW] “Pakistan began developing nuclear weapons in January 1972 under Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who delegated the program to the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) Munir Ahmad Khan with a commitment to having the device ready by the end of 1976.”

Khhhhhaaan!!!


13 posted on 06/13/2023 8:16:00 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: ridesthemiles
For those who don't know, taqiyya is the practice of lying to further the islamic faith. It includes everything up to and including lying about one's muslim faith, and committing un-islamic acts to 'blend in' with non-muslims (all the way up to pretending to be non-muslim and condemning islam!).

Put simply, it's a blanket permission to do *anything*, no matter how deceptive, so long as the practitioner thinks it will advance islam.

Also put simply, it means non-muslims can *never* trust muslims as a group, because it is a matter of faith to them nothing is beyond the pale, so long as the person committing it thinks it somehow advances islam.

Taqqiya is how some of the 9/11 hijackers justified being clean-shaven, drinking alcohol, doing drugs, and claiming to be Christian so as to further their pre-attack deception.

I've known several muslims who as far as I could tell were honorable men. But I can never trust them completely, for their faith sanctions the utmost in deception and depravity, so long as they think it helps them punish "unbelievers" like me.

And you.



Know thy enemies.

(And perhaps this ultimate flexibility in morals that muslim extremists practice can help you understand why they get along so well with the political Left- all is subjective to both groups; neither holds moral objectivity. They both effectively believe that 'the ends justify the means...')
14 posted on 06/13/2023 8:26:33 PM PDT by verum ago (I figure some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)
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To: Da Coyote

He is as good a liar as the White House spokes-idiot, but it was Cameltoe Harris who made her political career lying on her back, on a mattress, the stairs, the floor, the backseat of a 1990 Prius.


15 posted on 06/13/2023 8:42:44 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: nickcarraway

That’s true in a way he won’t admit. Western technology depends on Aristotelian logic and scientific method, both of which fundamental Islam denies.


16 posted on 06/13/2023 8:55:38 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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17 posted on 06/14/2023 6:24:03 AM PDT by SJackson (he who controls the schools, controls the world, 1870s France)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

There’s a monument to dead nuke scientists in Iran.

It has open slots, by design.

Planners, those guys. Planning ahead.


18 posted on 06/14/2023 6:28:47 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: nickcarraway

What lying arse maggots. The Iranians are high IQ. They invented chess. I believe. They need to trash their Muzzie overlords and overlards. The fat porky Ayatollahs.


19 posted on 06/14/2023 6:30:45 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence-stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: nickcarraway

What a crock....


20 posted on 06/14/2023 6:31:57 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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