"The claim that Iran has been on the verge of obtaining a nuclear bomb is a big lie,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said on Thursday.
In reaction to Kerry's speech in University of Philadelphia, Spokeswoman Maizieh Afkham said that, “under pressure of the Zionist lobby, the US officials have the habit of making baseless and exaggerated comments about Iran's nuclear program every now and then. It is a big lie to say that Iran was on the verge of acquiring a nuclear bomb,” she said in a statement.
She stressed that based on the religious decree of Iran's Leader and the country's defense doctrine, Tehran had never intended to acquire nuclear weapons and it will not do so in future.
On February 22, 2012, Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic Republic considers the pursuit and possession of nuclear weapons 'a grave sin' from every logical, religious and theoretical standpoint.
"It was the diplomacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran which proved inefficiency of sanctions and forced the US to sit at the negotiations table," she added.
The admission by US officials that even the severest sanctions failed to bring Iran to its knees was a diplomatic achievement for the Islamic Republic, said the spokeswoman.
On Wednesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry alleged that Iran "was already enriching uranium to the level of 20 percent, which is just below weapons-grade." The US secretary of state went on to say that the recent agreement between Iran and the 5+1 “will prevent Iran from obtaining the fissile material for a bomb.”
On July 14, Iran and the 5+1 countries – the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany – finalized the text of the nuclear agreement dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the Austrian capital, Vienna.
Under the JCPOA, limits will be put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal of all economic and financial sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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