Several successive and mutually cementing fatwas were issued by Supreme Leader Khamenei (h.A.) on the topic.
The initial fatwa is from the mid-1990s, as reported by Gareth Porter in the journal Foreign Policy. It was the object of an unpublished letter addressed to an Iranian government official in response to an inquiry by the latter.
Source:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/10/16/when-the-ayatollah-said-no-to-nukes/
In October, 2003 a verbal fatwa followed.
Source:
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PolicyFocus115.pdf
At an August, 2005 emergency meeting of the IAEA's Board of Governors, the Iranian delegation made a declaration in which it explained that the Leader's fatwa covered not only the use, but also the production and stockpiling of nuclear weapons. This may be in reference to the 2003 fatwa.
Source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130810154009/http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=302258
Four days after the conclusion of the JCPOA in July, 2015, ayatOllah Khamenei referenced his religious ruling in a speech:
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The Americans say they stopped Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. They know it's not true. We had a fatwa (religious ruling), declaring nuclear weapons to be religiously forbidden under Islamic law. It had nothing to do with the nuclear talks."
Source:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wo...the-United-States-following-nuclear-deal.html
According to the website of the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in France, another fatwa was issued on 21 Azar 1389 / 12 December 2010. The website's domain (mfa.ir) pertains to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In any case, this is an official state-owned portal linked to an institution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Source:
https://france.mfa.ir/portal/newsview/543649/
This puts to rest all western propaganda claiming no such fatwa exists.
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متن فتوای حضرت آیت الله خامنه ای صادره در تاریخ 21 آذر 1389 مبنی بر حرام بودن سلاح هسته ای
متن فتوای حضرت آیت الله خامنه ای صادره در تاریخ 21 آذر 1389 مبنی بر حرام بودن سلاح هسته ای :
" به اعتقاد ما افزودن بر سلاح هسته ای ،دیگر انواع سلاح های کشتار جمعی ، نظیر سلاح شیمیایی و سلاح میکروبی نیز تهدیدی جدید علیه بشریت تلقی میشوند. ملت ایران که خود قربانی کاربرد سلاح شیمیایی است، بیش از دیگر ملت ها خطر تولید و انباشت این گونه سلاح ها را حس میکند و آماده است همه امکانات خود را در مسیر مقابله با آن قرار دهد. ما کاربرد این سلاح ها را حرام و تلاش برای مصونیت بخشیدن ابناء بشر از این بلای بزرگ را وظیفه همگان می دانیم".
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