Iran's Khamenei Calls for 'Nuclear Free Middle East'

Tehran Times - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei insisted on Thursday that Iran has never been seeking to produce nuclear weapons.

However, the Leader said Iran “will never give up” its right to a peaceful use of nuclear energy.

“I stress that the Islamic Republic has never been after nuclear weapons and that it will never give up the right of its people to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes,” the Leader said in an inaugural speech to the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran.  Read more.