Rafsanjani: Iran must focus all might on nuclear pursuit

Iran Focus Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28 – Iran’s former President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that Iran had to muster all its national might and resources to obtain nuclear energy, government-run Persian-language websites reported on Tuesday.

In a meeting with leading officials in the State Expediency Council which he chairs, Majlis deputies, and several senior officials, Rafsanjani said, “The use of peaceful nuclear energy and the immense power that is inside it to fulfil the country’s current and future needs will come about through this. We must muster the country’s resources to be able to use this power”.

Rafsanjani said that the country’s economic decisions had to be made in accordance with the guidelines set out by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.