Iran

From Juan Coles's blog:

The Friday prayers leader in Tehran, a member of the Council of Guardians, reaffirms that Islamic law forbids nuclear weapons.

The law of war in Islam forbids the killing of innocent noncombatants. Since nuclear weapons inevitably kill large numbers of innocent women and children, Supreme Jurisprudent Ali Khamenei has pronounced these weapons contrary to Islam and insisted that Iran does not want them and would not use them.

There is no evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran, per IAEA. Nuclear energy does share technology with nuclear weapons, and producing nuclear energy is necessary for nuclear weapons production. But, if Iran was going down that road to nuclear weapons, we and the IAEA would KNOW it. They are not.

And recently, the NIE in the US said that Iran abandoned their nuclear weapons program in 2003. That date, co-incidentally, would be when they realized that the country of Iraq did not have a nuclear weapons program either.

I wish the whole world would dismantle their nuclear bombs and their nuclear power plants. We will not be truly free or safe until we do.