Noting that it operates in accordance with IAEA standards and within the framework of its rules, "Chairman of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Islami stressed today that" Iran has not and will not seek nuclear weapons. "

According to Islami, "Iran, in its national strategy, has not and will not seek to acquire nuclear weapons and is operating in accordance with the standards and framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency."

Islam added: "Iran has long had the capacity to make a nuclear weapon, but it has not, because its beliefs and the instructions of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei prevent it from doing so."

"Our navy has finally cut 45,000 km and crossed three oceans and the shores of more than 50 countries without docking in ports, and that is what the Iranian navy has so ably done," he said.

Islam said: "The Zionist entity must look at women and know their true size before making threats to target and strike Iranian nuclear sites."

Islam stressed that "all inspections to date of Iranian nuclear sites have found no trace of a deviation in Iran's nuclear programme."

Islam denied that the assassination of a nuclear world was a blow to the Islamic revolution. Indeed, "this was counterproductive and did not weaken Iran's nuclear programme, but led to the strengthening and expansion of peaceful nuclear activities."