US nuke policy on Iran ‘anti-Muslim’

IRAN’S powerful former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has accused the US of being anti-Muslim by pressuring Tehran over its nuclear programme, the state news agency IRNA reported.

“They are pressuring us because they do not want the Islamic world to be equipped with up-to-date science and technology,” Mr Rafsanjani, who heads Iran’s top political arbitration body, was quoted as saying yesterday.

“If Iran’s regime were not an Islamic one, the US would definitely not try to stop our nuclear activities,” the charismatic cleric told a gathering in the northeastern city of Mashhad.