Former Iran leader says country pursued nuclear weapon – Ex-president Rafsanjani reportedly says he and Khamenei began program to create deterrent during war with Iraq | The Times of Israel
former Iranian president admitted this week that the country’s nuclear program was started with the intent of building a nuclear weapon, Iranian dissidents said.
The reported comments by Hashemi Rafsanjani to the state-run IRNA news agency would appear to mark the first time a top Iranian official — current or former — has said the country sought a nuclear weapon, in contravention of repeated assurances by the regime that its enrichment program is and always has been peaceful.
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