By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The Islamic Republic of Iran has called for serious efforts to any stockpiling and use of atomic weapons, calling for nuclear disarmament across the world.
The demand was raised in New York on Tuesday by Iran’s news Deputy Foreign Minister Reza Najafi during the UN General Assembly’s high-level meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
He paid tributes to the victims of nuclear weapons – the unsuspecting men, women, and children of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who were all massacred in a few minutes by the atomic bombs of the terroristic US regime in August 1945 when World War 2 had almost ended with troops of imperial Japan on the retreat from all fronts.
He then said that the only way to ensure that nuclear weapons are not used is to destroy them completely, adding that eliminating such weapons “is a legal, political and moral responsibility for the international community.”
Najafi made it clear that nuclear disarmament means no further modernization or strengthening of nuclear arsenals by the United States and other nuclear-armed states, which are violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) through their refusal to any nuclear disarmament negotiations despite their legal obligations under Article VI.
He also drew attention to the terrorism of the illegal Zionist entity which continues to threaten peace and security in West Asia, North Africa and beyond through its barely hidden weapons-grade nuclear programme, which unfortunately remains outside the inspection of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – the Vienna-based UN affiliate that fully monitors Iran’s peaceful nuclear programme, and despite Tehran’s cooperation bows to US pressures to issue fabricated reports and politically motivated statements against the Islamic Republic.
It should be noted that Iran is the only country which despite having capability, has totally banned production of nuclear weapons, with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei issuing a fatwa (religious edict) that manufacture of weapons of mass destruction is haraam (religiously forbidden).
In contrast, Saudi Arabia, which has no scientists of its own, has hired nuclear mercenaries to work at its clandestine weapons-grade project over the past few years with the blessings of the US, which means, like in the case of Israel, the IAEA will never even refer to it.
Heir Apparent MBS (Mohamed bin Salman) is on record in saying in 2018 that Saudi Arabia might go for nuclear bombs – perhaps buy them, in case of not being able to manufacture.
The Islamic Republic ought to have an aggressive diplomacy towards nuclear disarmament and relentlessly pursue efforts in this regard in cooperation with the free world, no matter if the nuclear-armed powers feel annoyed.
Wonder why the Iranian side to the talks in Geneva that resulted in the signing of a flawed accord in 2015 called the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA) that gave the unwarranted right to the US president to approve or not the deal every three months, demanded inclusion of a clause ending nuclear weapons development and tests by the world’s dangerously armed nuclear powers, while agreeing to reduce Iran’s right to enrich uranium for peaceful purpose from 20 percent purity to as low as 3.67 percent!