“A few months before Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, several experts said that Iran needed to build a nuclear bomb,” Ardestani told an Iranian news website. “In this context, several members of the Majles wrote to the Supreme National Security Council, and also a number of clergy and government members appealed to the supreme leader to cancel the fatwa banning the creation of nuclear weapons,” he continued.
“I partly share the opinion of these people,” he said. The Majles is Iran’s name for its parliament, also known as the Islamic Consultative Assembly or ICA. The fatwa or religious edict Ardestani referred to is an absurd fiction created by the Iranians to pretend their frantic enrichment of uranium to near weapons-grade levels could not possibly be for nuclear weapons production, because Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei supposedly determined that building nuclear bombs would violate Islamic law. (Read More)
