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Iran's supreme leader said Friday the Islamic republic isn't seeking and doesn't believe in pursuing nuclear bombs.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the remarks a day after a draft report from the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Iran may be working secretly to develop a nuclear warhead for a missile.

"Iran will not get emotional in its response to these nonsensical statements, because we have often said that our religious tenets and beliefs consider these kinds of weapons of mass destruction to be symbols of genocide and are, therefore, forbidden and considered to be haram (religiously banned)," he said.

"This is why we do not believe in atomic bombs and weapons and do not seek them."

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"There is no explanation for that facility that is consistent with the needs of a civilian nuclear program," he said. "And it characterizes the way in which Iran has conducted its... relations with the IAEA and its failure to satisfactorily explain, you know, what its activities and ambitions are in the nuclear sphere."

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On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad warned the United States and other nations not to impose tougher sanctions in reaction to Iran's nuclear ambitions. He said recently that Iran will boost uranium enrichment to 20 percent.

"It's high time for some people to open their eyes and adapt themselves to real changes that are under way," he told reporters in Tehran.

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