{"id":244841,"date":"2026-03-18T13:06:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=244841"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:00:42","slug":"araghchi-says-irans-nuclear-doctrine-unlikely-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/244841\/","title":{"rendered":"Araghchi says Iran\u2019s nuclear doctrine unlikely to change"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Iran&rsquo;s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said the country&rsquo;s stance against the development of nuclear weapons will not significantly change, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/irans-nuclear-doctrine-not-likely-change-foreign-minister-says-2026-03-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Araghchi cautioned that the new supreme leader is yet to publicly express his view on &zwnj;the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed early in the US-Israeli war against Iran, opposed the development of weapons of mass destruction in a fatwa, or religious edict, issued in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Western countries, including the US and Israel, &#8203;have for years accused Tehran of seeking nuclear weapons, while Iranian authorities have said their nuclear program &#8203;is solely for civilian purposes.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&rsquo;s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said the country&rsquo;s stance against the development of nuclear weapons will not significantly change, Reuters writes. Araghchi cautioned that the new supreme leader is yet to publicly express his view on &zwnj;the matter. Former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed early in the US-Israeli war against Iran, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":244822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244842,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244841\/revisions\/244842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}