Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb.16 / Trend T.Jafarov /
Iran does not need an atomic bomb, but if it had wanted to have it, no force could then stop it, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today at a meeting with population of the Iranian province of East Azerbaijan in Tehran, ISNA agency reported.
"According to our faith, all atomic bombs must be destroyed, and we do not need them. However, if our faith had allowed and if we had decided that it is necessary to create an atomic bomb, no one could have stopped us," Ali Khamenei said.
On Feb. 22, 2012, Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic Republic of Iran believes that the possession of nuclear weapons is "a great sin" from a logical, religious and theoretical point of views.
Khamenei added that the Iranian people has never sought and will not seek to create a bomb.
In 2012, representatives of the "Group of six" (Russia, USA, China, France, Britain and Germany) and Iran held three rounds of talks. Before then, talks of "six" plus Iran had not been conducted for over a year. A new round of talks will be held in Kazakhstan on Feb. 26, 2013. The United States, other Western countries and Israel suspect Iran of developing nuclear weapons under the guise of peaceful nuclear program. Tehran says its nuclear program is aimed solely at meeting the country's electricity needs.