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Tehran, April 17, IRNA – The use of nuclear arms is Haram (religiously forbidden) and it is incumbent on all to protect humankind from the grave disaster, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution said Saturday.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the remarks in a message read to the opening session of the 1st International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation which began earlier in the day with the participation of officials and ministers from about 60 world countries.
The Supreme Leader stressed the need to find “sensible and practical ways and solutions to counter the threat of nuclear weapons against humanity.”
The ayatollah also urged participants of the two-day conference to take “serious steps towards protecting world peace and stability.”
“Any use or even threat to use nuclear weapons is a serious and material violation of indisputable rules of humanitarian law and a cogent example of a war crime,” it was said in the ayatollah’s message which was read by his Advisor for International Affairs Ali Akbar Velayati.
The Supreme Leader noted, “There is no winner in a nuclear war and entering such a war is irrational and inhuman.”
Criticizing the insistence of certain powers on holding on and increasing the destructive powers of nuclear weapons, the ayatollah said their insistence “will have no use but to serve as a tool for collective intimidation and terror and to create a false sense of security based on deterrence resulting from assured destruction and perpetuation of the global nuclear nightmare.”
The Supreme Leader said that greatest violators of the Non-Proliferation Treaty were “those powers that, in addition to violating their commitments under article 6 of the NPT on nuclear disarmament, have even taken over others in the race for vertical and horizontal proliferation.”
The ayatollah said that helping to arm the Zionist regime with nuclear weapons and supporting the policies of that regime were clear examples of those powers' “direct role” in proliferating nuclear arms worldwide.
The 1st International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation is participated by some 14 foreign ministers, 10 deputy ministers and a group of representatives from international and regional organizations.
The Supreme Leader stressed the need to find “sensible and practical ways and solutions to counter the threat of nuclear weapons against humanity.”
The ayatollah also urged participants of the two-day conference to take “serious steps towards protecting world peace and stability.”
“Any use or even threat to use nuclear weapons is a serious and material violation of indisputable rules of humanitarian law and a cogent example of a war crime,” it was said in the ayatollah’s message which was read by his Advisor for International Affairs Ali Akbar Velayati.
The Supreme Leader noted, “There is no winner in a nuclear war and entering such a war is irrational and inhuman.”
Criticizing the insistence of certain powers on holding on and increasing the destructive powers of nuclear weapons, the ayatollah said their insistence “will have no use but to serve as a tool for collective intimidation and terror and to create a false sense of security based on deterrence resulting from assured destruction and perpetuation of the global nuclear nightmare.”
The Supreme Leader said that greatest violators of the Non-Proliferation Treaty were “those powers that, in addition to violating their commitments under article 6 of the NPT on nuclear disarmament, have even taken over others in the race for vertical and horizontal proliferation.”
The ayatollah said that helping to arm the Zionist regime with nuclear weapons and supporting the policies of that regime were clear examples of those powers' “direct role” in proliferating nuclear arms worldwide.
The 1st International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation is participated by some 14 foreign ministers, 10 deputy ministers and a group of representatives from international and regional organizations.
