Broad and unquestioning public acceptance that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon is build upon what A.B. From the birth of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the building of nuclear weapons has been banned by a law higher even than civic law. Nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, and any weapons of mass destruction are haram: forbidden by God. The supreme leadership of Iran has always ruled that nuclear weapons are a violation of Islamic morality. Khamenei has insisted that “from an ideological and fiqhi [Islamic jurisprudence] perspective, we consider developing nuclear weapons as unlawful.