Iran: US, Zionist leaders' new claims 'worthless'

Iran says Israeli regime's atomic weapons arsenal represents the biggest threat to the world peace, dismissing new allegations by the illegal Zionist entity and US leaders against Iran's peaceful nuclear program as "hollow" and "worthless".

According to Press TV, the reaction on Thursday came a day after US President Donald Trump called Iran's peaceful nuclear program a threat to Zionist entity during a news conference with Israeli regime's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. 

"The statements did not contain any new point except being a repetition of hollow and worthless allegations against Iran's peaceful nuclear program," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said. 

Qassemi said, "Such claims are repeated while the International Atomic Energy Agency, in its reports, has time and again confirmed Iran's nuclear program as peaceful - a fact which has been verified many times by different countries."

"The bitter truth is that these remarks and inadmissible allegations are repeated by a regime which is not committed to any international law and convention and has hundreds of warheads in its atomic arsenal," he said. 

Zionist regime, Qassemi said, "is viewed as the biggest threat to peace and security in the Middle East and the world and its ponderous file of endless atrocities and inhuman actions against the oppressed Palestinian people and other neighbors is recorded in numerous UN reports."

Qassemi added, "Nuclear weapons are haram (forbidden) from the religious standpoint, corresponding with the fatwa of the Eminent Leader of the Islamic Revolution (Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei) and have no place in Iran's military doctrine."

The Islamic Republic, he said, will seriously continue to pursue those components of its peaceful nuclear program which are validated by the United Nations Security Council within the framework of the JCPOA.   

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