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Here is what the more-liberal Rafsanjani had to say about nuclear weapons during the Al-Quds Day sermon on December 14, 2001 at Tehran University:

Rafsanjani said that Muslims must surround colonialism and force them [the colonialists] to see whether Israel is beneficial to them or not. If one day, he said, the world of Islam comes to possess the weapons currently in Israel's possession [meaning nuclear weapons] - on that day this method of global arrogance would come to a dead end. This, he said, is because the use of a nuclear bomb in Israel will leave nothing on the ground, whereas it will only damage the world of Islam.

Iran News (English), Kayhan (Farsi), and Al-Wifaq (Arabic), December 15, 2001


Sounds like the mullahs have told his successor to cool down the talk about nuking Israel.