Iran’s chief justice rips Chirac’s nuke warning

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 25 – Iran’s top Islamic judge said on Wednesday that the European Union was losing ground in its push to refer the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program to the United Nations Security Council after French President Jacques Chirac threatened that France might use its nuclear might to respond to a major terror attack on its soil. Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Jan. 25 – Iran’s top Islamic judge said on Wednesday that the European Union was losing ground in its push to refer the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program to the United Nations Security Council after French President Jacques Chirac threatened that France might use its nuclear might to respond to a major terror attack on its soil.

Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi told reporters that the stance taken by “certain European officials” about a nuclear war showed the EU’s “weakness” regarding other states’ rights to develop nuclear energy.

Shahroudi said that the Islamic Iranian nation believed nuclear capabilities to be Iran’s “right”.

The EU along with the United States believe that Tehran is pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program under the guise of peaceful nuclear energy production.