A religious edict from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei states that pursuing nuclear weapons is forbidden. “Building and stockpiling nuclear bombs is wrong,” Khamenei stated in 2019.

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the last say on Tehran's nuclear programme, banned the development of nuclear weapons in a fatwa, or religious decree, in the early 2000s.

The Iranian regime has always insisted its nuclear programme is for civilian purposes. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, has issued a fatwa against the production of nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons were once deemed un-Islamic by Iran’s supreme leader, who went as far as issuing a fatwa against their production. But a lot has changed since the 1990s, and although Ayatollah ...

Iran’s supreme leader has dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there, a tacit acknowledgment that, despite launching a ...

The rising tensions between Iran and Israel have provoked understandable foreboding. On April 1, an Israeli airstrike killed a senior Iranian commander in Damascus. Last weekend, Iran responded ...

Iran's supreme leader has spoken out for the first time since his country launched an attack on Israeli soil last Saturday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran's ...

When pressed, Iranian officials often point to the "fatwa" or formal religious ban on nuclear acquisition developed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, in the 1990s. Will it spark a ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran's supreme leader on Sunday dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran's unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there, a tacit acknowledgment that ...

Iran's Supreme Leader has said they will make Israel "regret this crime" after a missile strike on the Iranian embassy in Syria killed a top Iranian general. Speaking on the death of Sardar ...

DUBAI, April 21 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei thanked the country's armed forces for their attack this month on Israel, saying the country had demonstrated its power regardless of ...