"The development or use of nuclear weapons contradicts Iran's religious principles and would violate the tenets of Islam". Or something similar.

Oh, yes, that is quite easy to believe, like believing that Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance and compassion.

Are repeated threats made by Iranian officials to wipe Israel off the map also against the tenets of Islam?

Islam also opposes killing of innocents and yet we see Suicide bombers all the time

leasing outdated crap from Chernobyl

Of course, only the U.S. and Israel commit terrorism. Hamas, Hezbolla and their ilk are all freedom fighters in noble service to Islam. Lying to infidels is also a holy principle that these guys have great expertise in.

As long as Iran says it's not interested in nukes I can live with that...just think peace man! Boom! Ooops.

why else would Iran be enriching uranium? for peaceful purposes, just as islam stated goals are to forcefuly subject the world to the rule of islam. Gee I wonder why they have to lie to us? CAUSE I WON"T SUBMIT!!!! Duh? Iran you may win some battles but you will not win the war. His truth is marching on...

Nuclear arms are against Iran's religious principles, but beating, and killing their people who are protesting against governmental injustice-people who want to be treated fairly and with respect is apparently not part of the Iranian government's religious principles. The government will do anything to beat peaceful protesters into submission, if not kill them, torture or imprison them. How contrary this is to the Freedoms most people in Iran yearn for.

Islam teaches that killing of one innocent human being is considered death of an entire humanity. Don't go by the miscreants - there are more than billion muslim population and not all of them are on their toes to get you. Even 80% of people or more better people. In India, we muslims love you (Israel). But, if you start pointing out Islam being the terror rather than Iran... i guess you will end up in hot boiling waters of good nations such as India, Australia etc. There are more than billion people keeping you safe. So, start directing your talkbacks at Iran rather than the religion

the notion of shame is non-existing! There are only means to achieve the goal but lying brazzenly is one of the pillars of this "faith", so it seems; and you know what?- it works!!!

they do the abuse of women and are a country of peace"

but, are Iranian Shiites Muslims?

Iran says that Koran does not allow nucleur weapons, where does it in the Koran.The problem is no one knows how intrepret it.If you get 100 mullahs or 100 clergymen,you get 200 intrepretations.Most of them are not well educated anyway.They have been misguided , badly misguided.

EDUCATE YOUSELF ! EXACTLY - ISLAM WAS SPREAD TO INDIA BY THE SWORD. SELFDECEPTION IS ONE OF THE EVIL ONES MOST PROMINENT AGENTS. Orao.Srbia.

Is this the new mantra in order to explain to the good people of Iran why they will still have no electricity for major period throughout the day? Bushehr was supposed to have come on line a long time ago. What on earth could be causing all these delays? Hmmm ....

There are a million people keeping you (Israel) safe" ???? Do tell us who these million people are? You are surely joking. Israel is keeping Israel safe. Our army,our navy,our airforce, all Israel's secuirty forces are keeping Israel safe as sure as I have five fingers on each of my 2 hands.

In the Koran it speaks of lying to your enemy in order to hide your beliefs. If revealing those beliefs might cause you harm. It's called "Taqiyya" look it up. So it's in the Koran, to lie about their true intentions. Why do you think we catch then lying all the time? How else could a so called religious leader give an interview that is all BS. He feels exonerated by the Koran and his beliefs. The cynicism of Muslims is never ending.

yes "taqqiyeh" (lying to mislead infidels) is straight from the koran, but perhaps this guy is telling the truth, sort of. right now, iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon, but america and israel do. since islam demands that non-moslems not exceed moslems in any way, it is obvious that islam is opposed to those (non-moslem) bombs. (it's interesting that he seems to be ignoring pakistan's nuclear arsenal, which was announced to the world as the "islamic bomb", and pakistan offered to help any moslem country to build their own.) perhaps, rather than an outright lie, he is merely telling a half-truth, and omitting the part where "being superior to a moslem is an affront against god, therefore we must kill you".

What a deception! Only a fool can believe their lies. Islam's Scholars and Experts have the following statements about Islam: -"The history of Islam, which was my special area of study, could only be characterized as a river of blood." (p.5, "Islam and Terrorism" [2002] by Mark A. Gabriel, PhD) -"Jihad and killing are the head of Islam. If you take them out, you cut off the head of Islam." (Ibid., p.24) -"There is no other cause for which more blood has been shed than Islam. According to some historians, in India alone, more than 80 million people were massacred by the sword of Islam. Millions were killed in Persia, Egypt and in all other countries that were attacked by marauding Muslims, both during their conquests and in the centuries that followed. It continues today...Why nine out of ten ongoing conflicts worldwide involve Muslims, who comprise only one fifth of humanity? Taken as an statistical average, this means that Muslims, as a group, are a whopping 36 times more likely to resort to violence for conflict resolution than the rest of humanity..." (p. 5, "Understanding Muhammad" [2007-2008] by Ali Sina)

truths but you only speak for your self as I do. iran is the most Dangerous theocratic society in the world, by their own choice. islam is a fractured religion with No one voice, interperpratated Many differant ways. The common thread is Deceit. Its ok to lye to further isalm, your mahdi is another reason to push Destiny forward. If isalm was doing Israel and the Jewish people a Favor They would Give Back The Temple Mount and Let the All Prople PRAY Were They Want !!! inshallah

Wow ! Thanks Brod for the expanation & for telling us Islam was your special area of study.

Jews are also experts in this field guess it takes one to know one.

A weapon tha kills indiscriminately and leaves lasting effects for generations is evil in both its intent and its effect, and is not in keeping with Islamic princples of war. Sadly, those principles are not always adhereed to, but they are certainly a standard to aspire to.

Interesting analysis, but I think that the truth is far simpler than your elevated thinking, which I suspect exceeds the capabilities of the knuckle-draggers who run the Islamic Republic. The fact of the matter is that everything in Iran that depends on sophisticated computer networks has been compromised. Liam O Murchu, Symantec's leading expert on computer security, said very early on that Stuxnet had totally crippled Iran and was more successful than a military strike. It mutates so quickly, that the world's leading experts say it is impossible to keep up with what it is programmed to do. Scrubbing the computers only makes things worse. O Murchu was the first to assert that Stuxnet was not the work of a single hacker with good programming skills, but rather the work of a dedicated team of top-level programming experts, mathematicians and physicists that have spent years developing this extraordinarily sophisticated bit of malware, possibly a decade or more. Stuxnet is taking down all of Iran's computerized command and control systems one by one, and no one is sure what it will do next. Actually, I take that back. There are a handful of people working in a top-secret facility somewhere in Israel that know exactly what Stuxnet will do next, but they aren't talking!

Jews are experts in a great many fields and we have the Nobel Prizes to prove it, so can you be a little more specific, please? Credible documentation is required, by the way, if you wish to be taken seriously.

Pretty much everyone except the extremely gullible and violence-prone Moslems.