一位伊朗高级神职人员提出了一项指控，称美国第一次海湾战争使用了小型核武器，美国对此予以否认。据伊朗国家媒体报导，前总统拉夫桑贾尼星期五质询记者为什么没有追踪相关新闻，即美国在1991年的海湾战争的最后几天动用了核武器。
美军中央司令部发言人对美国之音记者说，(记者没有追踪报导的)原因在于(伊朗)所指控的事件根本没有发生过。这位发言人星期五表示，伊朗的说法是毫无根据的。伊朗媒体报导说，拉夫桑贾尼在星期五祈祷中，提到了意大利电视台本月初采访美国海湾战争的老兵。这位前美国军人说，在1991年2月，美国在伊拉克南部城市巴士拉和伊朗边境附近引爆了5公斤的炸弹。
A senior Iranian cleric has raised allegations the U.S. used a small nuclear weapon in the first Gulf War, a charge the U.S. denies. Iranian state media reports former president Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani Friday is questioning why journalists have not pursued a report that the U.S. exploded an atomic weapon in the final days of the 1991 war.
A spokesman for U.S. Central Command told VOA the reason is that the alleged incident never happened. The spokesman (Major Joe Kloppel) said today (Friday) such an assertion is completely unfounded. Iran media report that during Friday prayers, Rafsanjani referred to an Italian television interview earlier this month with a U.S. Gulf war veteran. The former soldier said that in February 1991, the U.S. detonated a 5-kilogram bomb between the southern Iraqi city Basra and the Iranian border.