Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, used a ceremony to parade the country's frst domestically built naval destroyer to declare the Islamic Republic could never possess a nuclear weapon because its use is religiously forbidden. "Recently some Western and US officials have been repeating some outdated and nonsensical comments that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons," said Khamenei. "Our religious beliefs are against the use of such weapons. We in no way believe in an atomic weapon and do not seek one."