Tehran, July 2, IRNA � Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said Thursday that given the support of the Supreme Leader for Iranian nuclear negotiating team, the wise and vigilant Iranian nation will never abandon its nuclear negotiators.

Addressing a group of academics here, Ayatollah Rafsanjani said Iran has achieved the world's most complicated technology which is the nuclear technology through major strides taken by its scientists and youth.

'We have never been seeking nuclear weapons as Supreme Leader has issued a Fatwa banning production of atomic bombs and weapons,' the Ayatollah said.

Iran only wants to develop nuclear technology for peaceful, health and agricultural purposes, he stressed.

Ayatollah Rafsanjani added that the world have realized in order to solve their issues they have no other way but to respectfully negotiate with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Underlining the need for forging unity among the Iranian nation in the current situation, he said that division is a deadly poison that could cause many burdens for the Muslim Ummah.

By IRNA