Tehran, June 16 -- Supporters of Tehran's creation of nuclear weapons have no place in Iran's politics, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday.
"It is absolutely certain that the policy (of the country), as the supreme leader of Iran has repeatedly pointed out, is that Iran will not receive nuclear weapons and will not even seek to create them.
"Anyone who takes a position that does not correspond to this policy has no place in the politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Pezeshkian said in a statement, according to its state media IRIB.
Iran, however, has the right to use nuclear energy and conduct nuclear research, he asserted.
"We have the right to use nuclear energy and [conduct] research in the nuclear sphere...