Is Iran willing to give up its nuclear program? He rejected the premise of the question. “The truth is that we have never been after developing a nuclear bomb,” he said. “Not in the past, not presently, or in the future.” He then went a step further, describing the construction of nuclear weapons as “wrong” and “in contrast to the religious decree” of his country. “It is religiously forbidden for us to go after a nuclear bomb,” he plainly stated.