Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday that the era of nuclear weapons is over and that WMDs failed to solve any problem. "If nuclear weapons could have solved any problems, then they should have prevented the collapse of former Soviet Union, helped Israel be the winner of its 33-day aggression on southern Lebanon in 2006 and helped the US not fail in Iraq," Mottaki told reporters in New York.

He stressed that during its 7,000-year-old history, "Iran has never been the beginner of any war or aggression and has never developed weapons of mass destruction."
"All those who got used to be the single speakers and impose their ideas on others, may listen to others too as it is possible that they have also words which are worth listening."