Citizen G'kar: Musings on Earth

November 14, 2007

Islam Forbids Nuclear Weapons: Tehran Friday Prayer Leader

Informed Comment: Global Affairs
The USG Open Source Center translates a Friday sermon by Ayatollah Emami-Kashani asserting that nuclear weapons are forbidden in Islamic law and that Iran is not trying to get them.


"In Iran, the person who is a mufti, who has the right (to issue) fatwas, who is recognized as a jurist and is the leader of the community -- he who is the highest authority in the nation and is our eminent Leader [Ali Khamenei] -- has made it abundantly clear, as have others, that the destruction of nations, any nation, women and children, large or small -- the massacre of innocents is wrong. The same is true of the atomic bomb and atomic weapons. The very idea of an atom bomb is forbidden, the very deed is a sin. The foremost authority in this country, one who is in a position to issue fatwas, in political affairs, and in decision-making processes has stated it explicitly. Nevertheless, the enemy says you want to make atom bombs. It is like the other things they say -- they say things like you train terrorists and you make this and that place unsafe."

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