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Iran's President Claims That the Country Could Restarts its Nuclear Program "Within Hours"

posted by martyb on Tuesday August 15 2017, @07:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the stepping-back-to-the-brink dept.

takyon writes:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40934680

Iran's president has warned that it could restart its nuclear programme "within hours" if the United States imposes any more new sanctions.

Hassan Rouhani also said the programme would be more advanced than in 2015, when Iran curbed its nuclear activities as part of a deal with world powers.

Iran says unilateral US sanctions targeting its ballistic missile programme breach the agreement.

But the US says Iran's missile tests have violated a UN resolution.

The resolution endorsed the nuclear deal and called upon Iran not to "undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology".

Iran says the missiles it has tested are not designed to carry nuclear warheads and insists its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by n1 on Tuesday August 15 2017, @07:55PM (2 children)

    by n1 (993) on Tuesday August 15 2017, @07:55PM (#554400) Journal

    This is indeed worth remembering, Pakistan, a strategic ally that does have a fully developed nuclear weapons program is also a nation that has ungovernable tribal regions, a porous border with a totally failed state in Afghanistan, continual regional tensions with another nuclear power in India... On top of that elements within the military are known to provide support for 'radical terror groups' in the region. This includes being complicit in providing safe harbour for the world's most wanted man for an unknown peroid.

    Yet there is very little concern about the dangers of the Pakistan nuclear capabilities, because of a general understanding of political and economic cooperation, even if internal politics and military alignment on both sides continually undermine the general spirit of cooperation and any meaningful progress to regional stability.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @07:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @07:19AM (#554592)

    Problem is, that orange clown is probably the best person for the job right now

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @09:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @09:19AM (#554627)

    Pakistan is run by its army. Since its inception in 1947 it has not seen a single democratic ruler last its full term of 5 years. You know what is the quality of military? It is a dog. Earlier its master was USA now it is cosying up to China. It is open secret that Pakistan's nuclear capabilities, just like that of North Korea, are mostly funded by China.

    I wonder who has more failure written all over their foreign policy:

    1. The United States of America which failed to see any long term repercussion of propping up terrorist organizations and then failed to see any long term repercussion of allowing a non-democratic "socialist" regime like China to run amok,
    2. or it is China which has allowed itself to be surrounded by 3 nuclear powers neighbours (India, Pakistan and NK) and yet continuing to bully all its neighbours, specially the biggest of them - India - for long forgotten border issues.