TEHRAN – Vice President for Parliamentary Affairs Mohammad-Reza Mirtajoddini says the U.S. president believes he has carte blanche to use nuclear weapons.

In his recent remarks, U.S. President Barack Obama deemed it permissible to use nuclear weapons against certain countries at his own whim, Mirtajoddini said on Monday.
However, Iran believes the use of atomic weapons is totally outlawed and that everyone wants a nuclear weapons-free world, he added.
He went on to say that the United States, with a stockpile of about 9000 nuclear warheads, 2100 of which are strategic, is a major threat to world peace since the country’s nuclear arsenal could annihilate the entire world.
The former lawmaker also asked all independent countries and organizations to make serious efforts to eradicate all nuclear weapons.
The U.S. government recently released its “Nuclear Posture Review”, which the administration called a manifesto ""achieving substantial further nuclear force reductions.""
Although it explicitly states that all non-nuclear weapons states are immune from nuclear attack, the statement reserves the option to use nuclear weapons against countries like Iran and North Korea, labeled as outliers in the paper.
In addition, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that non-nuclear states that abide by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty would not be threatened with nuclear retaliation by the United States -- even if they conducted conventional, biological, or cyber attacks.
However, Gates added, “If you’re not going to play by the rules, if you’re going to be a proliferator, then all options are on the table in terms of how we deal with you,” the New York Times reported