Iran's nuclear program began in the 1950's with the help of the United States in a push for Nuclear peace around the world. In 2011 their program was under scrutiny for having undertaken research and experiments geared to developing a nuclear weapons capability prior to 2003 under the rule of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In a move clearly directed at nuclear peace Hassan Rouhani has declared that Iran “under no circumstances would seek any weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, nor will we ever.” The head of Tehran's nuclear program said Rouhani has a "more full-fledged...desire" to come to an agreement on nukes than the prior government, in stark contrast to the anti-Semitic vitriol of Ahmedinejad.
This act of peace and political stability is an important one. In a time where the world seems to always be on the edge of war and the thought of nuclear warfare always looming in the back of our minds an affirmative stance on nuclear weapons by a more reasonable president is one that provides comfort to us and a region with a longstanding history of corruption and threatening rhetoric. U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz sounded a note of caution. "The proof will be in the pudding," he said. "The words have to be followed by concrete action."
Iran's president Rouhani: We will never develop nuclear weapons
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