Kamangir (Archer)

Khomeini’s Fatwa Against Nuclear Weapons, Are You Serious?

Kamangir | September 29, 2006 | Category Iran

The eight-year war with Iraq was lead by two different groups. In one side there were the clerics, lead by the parliment’s speaker of the time Rafsanjani, whom had their rule as the bridge between the spiritual leader and the earthly art of attacking and defending. On the other side, there were Sepah commanders, including Mohsen Rezaei. It is so secret that these two groups were not always thinking similarly. Mainly, their rule in the “bitter” acceptance of the UN Resolution which put an end to the hostilities has always been disputed, by themselves.

Recently, Rafsanjani, who is the head of the chamber of the supreme leader’s advisers, and Rezaei, the speaker of the same chamber, have been arguing about the way the war was ended. Basically, each side claims that the other one asked for quiting the war because of shortage of equipment and budget. Now, Rafsanjani has revealed a letter from Khomeini, published 18 years ago, in which he mentions that the commanders have asked for tons of new equipments which the administration can’t supply and hence “we must accept the resolution”. The interesting part of the letter is where those equipment are listed: 350 infantry brigades, 2500 tanks, …, 300 helicopters and “good amount of Laser and Atomic Weapons”. The last part is mentioned as “…” in all Iranian sources. But, BBC says ILNA has had the sentence for a few hours before they turned to the dots, too (see).

I do not blame them; Iraq was using chemical weapons against Iranians. I say, let’s be honest; Khomeini never issued a Fatwa against nuclear weapons, or at least he did not really mean nuclear arsenal is as bad as pork is.