Iran does not want to leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, said on Monday.
"Our spiritual leader says that to obtain nuclear weapons is a sin - if we wanted to obtain nuclear weapons we would leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty," Salehi said. "We do not want to leave the NPT."
Salehi was speaking after a briefing with Russian energy minister Sergei Shmatko who was on a visit to the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which a Russian state company is helping to build.
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