Raeisi highlights effects of nuclear technology on people’s lives
Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi highlighted the effects of nuclear technology on people’s lives, especially in the areas of health and medicine, agriculture and industry, as well as oil and gas.
During a visit to an exhibition of Iranian nuclear capabilities in Tehran on Sunday, Raeisi hailed the technology as “one of the country’s great honors”.
He added that millions of people have been saved from disease due to the will of Iranian scientists in converting their knowledge into a capability in the nuclear field.
The nuclear industry has generated power for the country, Raeisi said, rejecting the idea that the creation of power lies in the production of nuclear arms.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly announced that it will never seek the production of nuclear weapons, given its religious beliefs and the fatwa of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, despite the fact that such a capability exists in the country,” the Iranian chief executive asserted.
Raeisi said the success achieved in Iran’s nuclear industry under sanctions and threats should serve as a model for other industries.
“The nuclear industry’s achievements manifest how the country’s beloved youths and scientists turned threats and sanctions into opportunities,” he said during a visit to the exhibition of Iranian nuclear capabilities in Tehran on Sunday.
“We need to spread the capabilities and technologies acquired in the nuclear industry to other industries, especially the automotive sector, so that they could reach this stage of success.”
Iran showed the world the peaceful nature of its nuclear program by signing the 2015 nuclear agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with six world powers.
Tehran has invariably asserted that its nuclear program is aimed at purely peaceful purposes and that the Islamic Republic had no intention of developing nuclear weapons.