Visiting Iranian Vice-President Rashim Mashaee insisted that his country is not hiding any nuclear bomb program and encouraged India not to believe Western propaganda. He highlighted that their nuclear program was indigenous and smirked at the idea that the program can be ter5minated with a military attack.

Due to the experience of enduring continued sanctions the last 30 years, he said that his nation does not care about economic sanctions. However, he said that further sanctions may have a ripple effect as Iran was a major oil exporting nation. He thanked the "great nation of India" for preventing “aggressive treatment" of his nation.

Interestingly, he said that Iran couldn’t "go back" on its peaceful nuclear program and being vague on whether that meant couldn’t just be civilian, rollback a nuclear weapons program, or go back on its promises on civilian program. Going against conventional wisdom that Iran illicitly obtained weapons technology from Pakistan’s disgraced nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan; he insisted that Iran's nuclear research capabilities as "100% domestic.