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1283:, "fatwas are issued in response to specific circumstances and can be altered in response to changing conditions". He argued that Khomeini altered some of his former viewpoints on issues such as taxes, military conscription, women's suffrage and monarchy as a form of government and so Khamenei may likewise modify supplanting his nuclear fatwa under critical circumstances. Similarly, Michael Eisenstadt argued that Khamenei may have issued the fatwa to reduce the international pressure on Iran and that "no religious principle would prevent Khamenei from modifying or supplanting his initial fatwa if circumstances were to change" and "expediency/interest of the regime ( 20: 54: 1361: 2432: 425: 1333: 1347: 956: 1230:" does not apply here because the fatwa by Khamenei is a primary religious order, not a secondary one. According to him, Khamenei's fatwa bans massacre of innocent people; that is not going to change in any situation since it is a primary order. Also, he said that Islamic jurists have banned deception in 1182:
So I close by saying to all of you that the singular objective that brought us to Geneva remains our singular objective as we leave Geneva, and that is to ensure that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon. In that singular object, we are resolute. Foreign Minister Zarif emphasized that they don't
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This is while we are not after nuclear tests. We are not after nuclear weapons. And this is not because they are telling us not to pursue these things. Rather, we do not want these things for the sake of ourselves and our religion and because reason is telling us not to do so. Both shar'i and aqli
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We believe that besides nuclear weapons, other types of weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons also pose a serious threat to humanity. The Iranian nation which is itself a victim of chemical weapons feels more than any other nation the danger that is caused by the
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has been a subject of international debate for decades. The Iranian government claims that the purpose of its nuclear development is to produce electricity, and Khamenei said that it fundamentally rejects nuclear weapons, but experts believe that Iran is technically able to enrich uranium for
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The Iranian official website for information on its nuclear program has provided numerous instances of public statements by Khamenei in which he voices his opposition to pursuit and development of nuclear weapons in moral, religious and Islamic juridical terms. Khamenei's official website
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production and stockpiling of such weapons and is prepared to make use of all its facilities to counter such threats. We consider the use of such weapons as haraam and believe that it is everyone's duty to make efforts to secure humanity against this great disaster.
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According to Gareth Porter, the fatwa was issued for the first time in the mid-1990s in a letter that was never publicly released. The fatwa was issued "without any fanfare" responding to a request from an official "for his religious opinion on nuclear weapons".
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seeking revenge for Iraqis attacks killing 20,000 Iranians and severely injured 100,000 more. Porter argues that fact to suggest strongly that Iran has sincerely made a "deep-rooted" ban on developing chemical and nuclear weapons. In an interview with Porter,
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Questions have been raised by some experts thinktanks affiliated with the US and Israel on the fatwa's existence, authenticity and impact and on whether it was only a political statement that lacks the authority of a religiously-binding fatwa.
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The Americans say they stopped Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. They know it's not true. We had a fatwa (religious ruling), declaring nuclear weapons to be religiously forbidden under Islamic law. It had nothing to do with the nuclear
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had admitted the nuclear option was explored and referred to it in an interview. However, according to the Iranian nuclear hope website, Rafsanjani's interview, when it was initially published, was "skewed by
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fatwas dictate that we do not pursue them. Our aqli fatwa is that we do not need a nuclear weapon either in the present time or in the future. A nuclear weapon is a source of trouble for a country like ours.
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argues that the references to the fatwa by the US government may be done to give the Iranians a route to compromise on the basis of religious beliefs rather than pressure from US-led sanctions.
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In 2021, acknowledging the fatwa, Iran's Minister of Intelligence said that the country may nevertheless change their stance if "pushed in that direction" like a "cornered cat".
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The fatwa is regarded as consistent with a set of rules in Islamic tradition that prohibit weapons that indiscriminately kill women, children and the elderly.
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dates back to the mid-1990s. The first public announcement is reported to have occurred in October 2003, followed by an official statement at a meeting of the
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media," and Rafsanjani said that "there was no reason to go toward the military aspect of nuclear issues, we did not want to build nuclear weapons."
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At a meeting with the Islamic Republic's Foreign Ministry members on May 20th, 2023, Ali Khamenei said that entering the
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to give up his nuclear weapons program". Some analysts raised the possibility that Khamenei might be lying by using
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The fatwa has been widely discussed by international officials and was referred to in remarks by US President
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Some analysts have questioned either the existence, applicability and/or constancy of the fatwa. According to
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The fatwa is included on Khamenei's official website, and it was referred to in remarks by both US President
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intend to do this, and the supreme leader has indicated there is a fatwa, which forbids them to do this.
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argues that "the analysis of Khamenei's fatwa has been flawed", not only because the role of the "
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Also, he said during a speech delivered on 9 April 2015 in a meeting with a group of panegyrists:
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In October 2003, Khamenei issued an oral fatwa that forbade the production and using any form of
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specifically cites a 2010 version of those statements in the fatwa section of the website in
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Iran's supreme leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons.
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said the fatwa only forbids the use of a nuclear weapon, not its creation.
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and war, which are Islamic leaders he respects. On November 1, 2015,
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noted that Khamenei said "that it was a mistake for Col. Muammar el-
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as a fatwa on "Prohibition of Weapons of Mass Destruction":
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Index


Ali Khamenei
Supreme Leader of Iran
a series
Nuclear program of Iran

Timeline
Facilities
Arak
Bushehr
Darkhovin
Fordow
Natanz
Isfahan Nuclear Technology/Research Center
Karun atomic energy site
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
Oghab 2
International Atomic Energy Agency
P5+1
Non-Proliferation Treaty
Additional Protocol
2013 interim agreement, Geneva
2015 prelim agreement, Lausanne
2015 final agreement, Vienna
Reactions
Aftermath
Negotiations
United States withdrawal
Nuclear Achievements Act
Iranian act implementing the JCPOA

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