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Iran supports UN-imposed universal nuclear disarmament.(INSIDER REPORT)(United Nations. General Assembly)

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Embedded, but largely ignored, in a well-publicized interview with Time magazine was a statement from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterating a call made last year for universal nuclear disarmament through the United Nations.

In the interview with Time, conducted in Cuba during a summit of "non-aligned" nations, Iranian President Ahmadinejad was asked: "Does Iran have the right to nuclear weapons?" "We are opposed to nuclear weapons," replied the figurehead for Tehran's revolutionary clerical regime. "We think it has been developed just to kill human beings. It is not in the service of human beings. For that reason, last year in my address to the U.N. General Assembly, I suggested that a committee should be set up in ...

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