(Washington) – Iran will never seek nuclear weapons, newly elected President Hassan Rowhani vowed, as he tried to reach out to the United States. In a US television interview days before he travels to New York for the UN General Assembly, Rowhani praised US President Barack Obama for taking a “positive” approach toward Tehran in a letter.
“Under no circumstances would we seek any weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, nor will we ever,” Rowhani told. “We have never pursued or sought a nuclear bomb, and we are not going to do so,” he said.
Rowhani repeated Iran’s position that the clerical state was solely “looking for peaceful nuclear technology.”
