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Tehran Will Never Make Nuclear-Capable Missiles - Iranian Foreign Ministry

© AFP 2023 / EBRAHIM NOROOZI / JamejamonlineIranian navy fires a Mehrab missile during the "Velayat-90" naval wargames in the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran (file)
Iranian navy fires a Mehrab missile during the Velayat-90 naval wargames in the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran (file) - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Tehran has never planned to and will not make missiles that are capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman said Wednesday.

"In Iran’s transparent missile and defence policies … there is no design and plan for having missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, and there won't be any in the future," Bahram Qassemi was quoted as saying by the ministry's press service.

Qassemi also criticized Western states for their double-standard policies and said he regretted that they take such belligerent stances on Iran’s peaceful defence programme.

"We deeply believe the expression of such concerns is not based on logical grounds, and is, more than anything, an offspring of Iranophobic policies and approaches pursued by certain countries and regimes in the world," he noted.

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FILE -- In this Dec. 29, 2016 file photo, released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), a long-range S-200 missile is fired in a military drill in the port city of Bushehr, on the northern coast of Persian Gulf, Iran - Sputnik International
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