A fatwa regarding Iran’s prohibition on the development and use of nuclear weapons for the first time in the mid-1990s in a letter that was never publicly released. The fatwa was issued “without any fanfare” responding to a request from an official “for his religious opinion on nuclear weapons”.
In October 2003, Khamenei issued an oral fatwa that forbade the production and using any form of weapon of mass destruction.Two years later, in August 2005, the fatwa was cited in an official statement by the Iranian government at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. It stated that the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons were forbidden under Islam.
Iran’s nuclear program has been a subject of international debate for decades. The Iranian government claims that the purpose of its nuclear development is to produce electricity, and Khamenei said that it fundamentally rejects nuclear weapons, but experts believe that Iran is technically able to enrich uranium for producing a bomb within a few months.
Four days after the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement, Khamenei delivered a speech, highlighting his fatwa and rejecting the claim that the nuclear talks, rather than Iran’s religious abstinence, prevented Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons:
“The Americans say they stopped Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. They know it’s not true. We had a fatwa (religious ruling), declaring nuclear weapons to be religiously forbidden under Islamic law. It had nothing to do with the nuclear talks.”
The Iranian official website for information on its nuclear program has provided numerous instances of public statements by Khamenei in which he voices his opposition to pursuit and development of nuclear weapons in moral, religious and Islamic juridical terms. Khamenei’s official website specifically cites a version of those statements in the fatwa section of the website in Farsi as a fatwa on “Prohibition of Weapons of Mass Destruction”:
We believe that besides nuclear weapons, other types of weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons also pose a serious threat to humanity. The Iranian nation which is itself a victim of chemical weapons feels more than any other nation the danger that is caused by the production and stockpiling of such weapons and is prepared to make use of all its facilities to counter such threats. We consider the use of such weapons as haraam and believe that it is everyone’s duty to make efforts to secure humanity against this great disaster.
Also, he said during a speech during a meeting with a group of panegyrists:
This is while we are not after nuclear tests. We are not after nuclear weapons. And this is not because they are telling us not to pursue these things. Rather, we do not want these things for the sake of ourselves and our religion and because reason is telling us not to do so. Both shar’i and aqli [related to logic and reason] fatwas dictate that we do not pursue them. Our aqli fatwa is that we do not need a nuclear weapon either in the present time or in the future. A nuclear weapon is a source of trouble for a country like ours.
-Wikipedia
SatoruGojo232 on
“We believe that besides nuclear weapons, other types of weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons also pose a serious threat to humanity. The Iranian nation which is itself a victim of chemical weapons feels more than any other nation the danger that is caused by the production and stockpiling of such weapons and is prepared to make use of all its facilities to counter such threats. We consider the use of such weapons as haraam (forbidden in Islam) and believe that it is everyone’s duty to make efforts to secure humanity against this great disaster.”
-Section of Khamenei’s fatwa
Pakistan’s government, which sees this ruling saying nuclear weapons are haraam (forbidden in Islam), and has Islam as its state religion: nah, we dont agree to that
Chef_Sizzlipede on
thinking that this would ever stick, or if it’d ever fool anyone, is really stucking fupid.
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A fatwa regarding Iran’s prohibition on the development and use of nuclear weapons for the first time in the mid-1990s in a letter that was never publicly released. The fatwa was issued “without any fanfare” responding to a request from an official “for his religious opinion on nuclear weapons”.
In October 2003, Khamenei issued an oral fatwa that forbade the production and using any form of weapon of mass destruction.Two years later, in August 2005, the fatwa was cited in an official statement by the Iranian government at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. It stated that the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons were forbidden under Islam.
Iran’s nuclear program has been a subject of international debate for decades. The Iranian government claims that the purpose of its nuclear development is to produce electricity, and Khamenei said that it fundamentally rejects nuclear weapons, but experts believe that Iran is technically able to enrich uranium for producing a bomb within a few months.
Four days after the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement, Khamenei delivered a speech, highlighting his fatwa and rejecting the claim that the nuclear talks, rather than Iran’s religious abstinence, prevented Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons:
“The Americans say they stopped Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. They know it’s not true. We had a fatwa (religious ruling), declaring nuclear weapons to be religiously forbidden under Islamic law. It had nothing to do with the nuclear talks.”
The Iranian official website for information on its nuclear program has provided numerous instances of public statements by Khamenei in which he voices his opposition to pursuit and development of nuclear weapons in moral, religious and Islamic juridical terms. Khamenei’s official website specifically cites a version of those statements in the fatwa section of the website in Farsi as a fatwa on “Prohibition of Weapons of Mass Destruction”:
We believe that besides nuclear weapons, other types of weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons also pose a serious threat to humanity. The Iranian nation which is itself a victim of chemical weapons feels more than any other nation the danger that is caused by the production and stockpiling of such weapons and is prepared to make use of all its facilities to counter such threats. We consider the use of such weapons as haraam and believe that it is everyone’s duty to make efforts to secure humanity against this great disaster.
Also, he said during a speech during a meeting with a group of panegyrists:
This is while we are not after nuclear tests. We are not after nuclear weapons. And this is not because they are telling us not to pursue these things. Rather, we do not want these things for the sake of ourselves and our religion and because reason is telling us not to do so. Both shar’i and aqli [related to logic and reason] fatwas dictate that we do not pursue them. Our aqli fatwa is that we do not need a nuclear weapon either in the present time or in the future. A nuclear weapon is a source of trouble for a country like ours.
-Wikipedia
“We believe that besides nuclear weapons, other types of weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons also pose a serious threat to humanity. The Iranian nation which is itself a victim of chemical weapons feels more than any other nation the danger that is caused by the production and stockpiling of such weapons and is prepared to make use of all its facilities to counter such threats. We consider the use of such weapons as haraam (forbidden in Islam) and believe that it is everyone’s duty to make efforts to secure humanity against this great disaster.”
-Section of Khamenei’s fatwa
Pakistan’s government, which sees this ruling saying nuclear weapons are haraam (forbidden in Islam), and has Islam as its state religion: nah, we dont agree to that
thinking that this would ever stick, or if it’d ever fool anyone, is really stucking fupid.