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Iran Joined With the Japanese in Protest
Iran's foreign ministry also issued a statement of protest against the U.S. test, blaming the U.S. for "inattention to full disarmament which is a deep-seated demand of international public opinion."
The Iranian government also pointed out that one of the country's leaders, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared in a fatwa in 2005 that nuclear weapons are against the principles of Islam, adding that Iran "will pursue the supreme leader's fatwa regarding the prohibition of production, storage or use of such weapons until it has been fully realized."
Iranian political scientist Kaveh Afrasiabi pointed out, in a half-hour interview on Iranian Press TV English-language news, that "This could be a cover for computer simulations for advancing new nuclear warheads. We don't know that because the US program is shrouded in high secrecy."
Iranian Press TV also reported that the mayor of Hiroshima had also condemned the American subcritical explosion test.
The White House has apparently not yet responded to Iranian comments. The Obama as ministration is on record favoring restraints on nuclear weapons and has taken leadership in helping to control weapons-grade uranium, plutonium, and other fissile nuclear materials around the world. The administration has also increased American budgets for nuclear weapons maintenance and delivery systems, as well as overall military spending.
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Weapons Are a Moribund Issue in U.S.
Last October, NNSA administrator Thomas D'Agostino published a letter in the New York Times defending his agency's work on nuclear weapons against criticism in one of the paper's editorials:
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