Iran called for independent verification of US claims it has pared its stockpile of nuclear warheads back to 5,113 and queried whether Washington was justified in holding such a lethal load.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast also dismissed US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s criticism of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech yesterday on the opening day of the Non-Proliferation Treaty conference. "Is possessing 5,000 atomic weapons justified? How can you justify possessing such a number of weapons which threaten world security?", Mehmanparast said at his weekly press conference.
"An independent probe is needed to verify the number of US nuclear warheads. A team of independent countries must be allowed to check whether (the number) is right or not," he said, implicitly casting doubt on figures revealed by Pentagon yesterday
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