Iran rejects U.S. claims about its latest nuclear development

STORY: Iran rejects U.S. claims about its latest nuclear development DATELINE: Oct. 3, 2023 LENGTH: 0:02:00 LOCATION: Tehran CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the press conference STORYLINE: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Monday rejected the U.S. government's anti-Tehran claims in its latest report on "Strategy for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD)." "These are baseless claims. Iran is a committed signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and has signed the comprehensive safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency and is implementing it," Kanaani said at a regular press conference in the Iranian capital Tehran. Kanaani stressed that Iran has repeatedly announced that nuclear weapons have no place in its military and defense doctrine and his country is opposed to any use of such weapons. He noted that Iran was the biggest victim of chemical weapons, particularly in the Iraq-Iran war from 1980 to 1988, when a number of Western states