Reuters: Khamenei tells Iran's Guards to develop more advanced, modern weapons
DUBAI (Reuters) - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards on Sunday to develop more advanced and modern weapons, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, amid rising regional tensions.
“The Guards should have advanced and modern weapons ... Your weapons should be modern and updated. It should be developed at home. You need to develop and produce your weapons,” Khamenei said in a speech at Imam Hussein Military University in Tehran.
Tensions in the Gulf have spiked since the United States, Saudi Arabia, Britain, France and Germany publicly blamed Iran for Sept. 14 attacks on the world’s biggest crude oil-processing facility in Saudi Arabia.
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Update: Iran Leader Urges IRGC to Develop More Advanced Weapons (Iran Front Page)
WNU Editor: In the past Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons .... Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei Claims Nuclear Weapons Absolutely Forbidden In Islam (Eurasia Review). But you have to wonder if today's remarks bu the Supreme Leader is a green light to develop and manufacture nuclear weapons?
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"In an address to a group of Iranian academic elites and top scientific talents in Tehran on Wednesday, Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized that scientific progress must be accompanied with humanitarian values and the correct culture of humanitarianism."
What a joke.. Recently several young students in Iran were sentenced to 70 years in prison for making "anti-regime comments" That's just one small example of the regime's oppression which goes directly against "humanitarian values"
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