Iran: They Have a Fatwa, A Religious Edict That Forbids Them from Developing Nuclear Weapons-Elmasry

In a pointed intervention on Al Jazeera, a Gulf-based academic has highlighted a dimension of Iran’s position on nuclear weapons that he argues is consistently overlooked in Western diplomatic discourse, namely the existence of a binding religious ruling that expressly prohibits Tehran from developing such weapons.

Muhammad Elmasry, Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, raised the issue while challenging what he described as the difficulty of understanding the Trump administration’s stated rationale for its maximalist demands on the nuclear question...Read The Complete; Full Original Here.