Iran supreme leader says has no intention to make or use nuclear weapons - Japan

TOKYO (Reuters) - Iran has no intention of making or using nuclear weapons, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying on Thursday by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

"Supreme Leader Khamenei made a comment that the country will not and should not make, hold or use nuclear weapons, and that it has no such intentions," Abe told reporters in Tehran following his meeting with Khamenei.

Abe's comment was broadcast on Japanese public broadcaster NHK.

(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by robert Birsel)