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Nuclear weapons have not kept safe the world’s nuclear states – President Rouhani

Iran’s president accuses nuclear powers of hypocrisy, Guardian 5 Feb 15,  Hassan Rouhani says Iran doesn’t need bomb and that weapons have not kept world’s nuclear states safe Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani has berated the world’s nuclear powers, saying atomic weapons have not kept them safe and reiterating that his country is not seeking the bomb.

Rouhani, in an unusually fiery speech, avoided explicit mention of ongoing nuclear talks between the west and Iran, but accused atomic-armed states of hypocrisy.

“They tell us: ‘We don’t want Iran to make atomic bombs’, you who have made atomic bombs,” Rouhani said in Isfahan on Wednesday, a city 400km (250 miles) south of the capital, Tehran.

He then took aim at Israel, which has never acknowledged that it has nuclear weapons, dubbing the state a “criminal”.

“Have you managed to bring about security for yourselves with atomic bombs? Have you managed to create security for the usurper Israel?” Rouhani said.

“We don’t need an atomic bomb. We have a great, self-sacrificing and unified nation,” he said, referring to Monday’s launch of an observation satellite into space by Iran……….http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/05/iran-doesnt-need-an-atomic-bomb-rouhani-nuclear-weapons

February 6, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general