“Iran plans to declare in the UN that it will never go after nuclear bombs,” Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said on Tuesday, AP quoted the Iranian Mehr news agency as reporting…

Experts are, however, pessimistic about any chance of success in negotiations with Iran. Different Iranian leaders are saying contradictory things, Patrick Clawson, the director of research at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

“[Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei’s speech a few weeks ago took a much more plausible approach than Rahimi’s ‘never’ comment: Khamenei said if Iran wanted nuclear weapons, no country could stop it, but Iran does not want the weapons,” Clawson said.