Speaking from the deck of a newly unveiled naval destroyer, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, derided Western claims about his country's nuclear program, saying Iran did not believe in nuclear weapons and was not seeking to develop them.
He spoke a day after the United Nations' nuclear inspectors issued a strongly worded report citing evidence of "past or current undisclosed activities" by Iran's military to develop a nuclear warhead.
''Our neighbors know that these are false claims and that America and the Zionist regime are trying to create divisions and divert the attention of the Islamic world from their real enemies, which are the U.S. and Israel," the ayatollah said, in remarks broadcast on state television.
