...They hate Students Correspondents Association (ISCA) news channel, an Iranian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
outlet, the former deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Motahari, spilled the beans on the theocratic regime’s nuclear ambitions. "There is no need to beat around the bush," he said. "When we began our nuclear activity, our goal was indeed to build a bomb." The politician and son of an Ayatollah admitted that the goal of constructing a nuclear bomb was to use it as a "means of intimidation and to strike fear in the hearts of the enemies of Allah." Motahari continued by stating that the plan by the regime had been to keep the nuclear program secret until such time as they were ready to perform a nuclear test. "It would then have been a done deal, like in Pakistain," he said, arguing that the world tends to take seriously countries that have nuclear bombs like Pakistain and North Korea