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Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani said Friday, 03 October 2003, at the mass prayer ceremony in Teheran that pressure on Iran's nuclear projects was just due to the country's anti-Israel policies. He added that Iran has proven in the war against Iraq (1980-88) that it would not even consider using weapons of mass destruction although were attacked by such weapons. Behind him the pictures of the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ( R ) and his successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. EPA/Abedin Taherkenareh