Iran will never seek to build nuclear weapons as the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has forbidden it, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said at a meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Raphael Grossi, Paralel.Az reports citing TASS.

"Based on the fatwa of the supreme leader, we have not sought and will not seek to build nuclear weapons in any way, and no one is allowed to deviate from this policy," Pezeshkian said, according to a statement from his office.

"We declare our readiness to cooperate and move closer to this international institution to resolve the alleged problems and dispel doubts about our country's peaceful nuclear activities," he went on to say.

The president accused the US of derailing the agreements around Iran's nuclear program.

"According to IAEA reports, we met all our obligations under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, but the US unilaterally withdrew from the agreement [in 2018] anyway and made it impossible to continue on this path," Pezeshkian said.