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Iran says it will go beyond previous enrichment if nuclear deal fails
[IsraelTimes] Spokesperson for atomic agency says Tehran’s program ’considerably more advanced’ than when 2015 accord was signed
"We will not return to previous levels if our counterparts leave the JCPOA (nuclear deal), but will instead reach even more advanced levels," the organization’s front man Behrouz Kamalvandi said, quoted by state broadcaster IRIB. "We are at a considerably more advanced status than when we signed the deal. The country is moving ahead in nuclear activities at a favorable pace," he added. Iran has repeatedly said it will resume high-level uranium enrichment if the 2015 agreement ‐ which limits its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief ‐ falls apart. Following the withdrawal of the United States in May, the other parties ‐ Britannia, La Belle France, Germany, China, Russia and the EU ‐ have vowed to provide Iran with enough economic benefits to keep the agreement alive. But Tehran is increasingly skeptical that those countries can counter the effects of renewed US sanctions, which have already battered Iran’s economy. Last week, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran should be ready to "set aside" the agreement if it is no longer in the country’s national interests. The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency has repeatedly stated that Iran is sticking to its commitments. The administration of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... says the deal did not prevent Iran from eventually working towards a nuclear weapon ‐ which Tehran has denied it is seeking. Nuclear Selfies [IsraelTimes] Yedioth Ahronoth’s Ronen Bergman reveals yet more details about the Israeli raid to steal Iran’s nuclear archive and what’s in it: selfies. "The Iranians documented everything: the equipment, the building of factories and secret sites and even themselves during tests, with entertaining selfie photographs." Bergman writes that the documents point to IRGC officer and physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi as the brains behind the nuclear program. "According to foreign reports, he was a preferred target for Israeli intel gathering and the idea of harming him was even considered. It didn’t happen and now it seems there are those who are sorry about the decision to let him get away with his life," he writes. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-09-06 |
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