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Sunday, January 11, 2015
Zarif Rejects Spiegel Report on Iran's Nuclear Cooperation with Syria

Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:41
Zarif Rejects Spiegel Report on Iran's Nuclear Cooperation with Syria
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13931021000838

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed as
"ridiculous" an alleged report by the German weekly, Der Spiegel, that
Tehran is helping Damascus build nuclear weapons.

"The magazine's allegation is one of the attempts made by those circles
whose life has been based on violence and fear to cloud the international
community with illusion and create imaginary concerns about the Islamic
Republic, and this is a ridiculous claim," Zarif said in a joint press
conference with his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides in Tehran on
Sunday.

He also stressed Iran's policy of opposition to the acquisition of nuclear
weapons and the fatwa issued by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution
Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei that has placed a strong religious ban on the
acquisition, possession and use of atomic bombs, and said, "We believe that
all nuclear weapons should be dismantled."

Elsewhere in response to the reporters' question about his upcoming meeting
with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday, he said, "Since there
are no political relations between Iran and the US, the meeting will be held
in Geneva and our negotiations with the US are just limited to the nuclear
issue."

Zarif said that his meeting with Kerry is aimed at studying the extent to
which the nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington, held within
the framework of nuclear talks between Iran and the world powers, have
produced success.

He also said he might have meetings with EU officials during his European
tour.

The German Der Spiegel claimed in a report earlier this week that Syrian
President Bashar Assad's government, with the aid of Iran’s Revolutionary
Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah, is building
a nuclear weapons device.

It also claimed that the main intelligence for the discovery of a new
nuclear site in Syria came from radio communications intercepted by a
network of spies.

Der Spiegel did not reveal the origin of the espionage report, but such
claims are normally given out by the Israelis.

Last year, a similar report gained from alleged Syrian radio communications
intercepted by the Israelis led almost to a US war on Syria under the
pretext that the Syrian army has used chemical weapons in Eastern Ghouta in
the Damascus countryside, but later reports showed that the chemical attack
had been staged by the militants.

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