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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.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @09:42PM (7 children)
Yes, what could possibly go wrong with a country whose SENATE openly chants "Death to America" during political meetings? Come on, you can trust them. Sure, Obama's own State Department called them the #1 State Supporter of Terrorism, but that's no reason not to send them billions of dollars in cash!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by julian on Tuesday August 15 2017, @09:54PM
It was money we owed them. We seized assets decades ago, the $1.7B was us returning those funds plus interest. It was a deal sweetener to get them to release some prisoners and negotiate their nuke program.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday August 15 2017, @09:56PM (3 children)
When Iran signed the "peaceful" nuclear deal in order to develop "peaceful" nuclear energy, Iran's senate shouted "death to America, death to Israel". But you really shouldn't infer anything from that. I mean really, Iran wants nothing but peace. That's why they fund terrorists.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2, Touché) by gawdonblue on Tuesday August 15 2017, @10:10PM
And the Israeli Knesset keeps telling the world it wants peace with its neighbours.
Actions speak louder than words.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @01:06AM
The US promotes democracy and peace, which is why it's allied with Saudi Arabia, a country that also funds terrorism. I'm sure Iran would be even more unstable had the US not overthrown their democracy a long time ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @01:40PM
I hope you don't expect us to believe that you'd sing _Kumbaya_ to honor a state that overthrew your democratically elected leader, propped up a terrible dictator for decades, then enforced crippling sanctions for more decades in response to you finally getting rid of said dictator.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @10:05PM
Those terrible Iranians, I can't even imagine such behavior would even happen in our civilized nation much less by our Senators.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @07:46AM
They did the same with Israel back in the days, while building a secret runway in the desert for the Israeli presidents plane to land without anyone noticing. Because the religion is Islam and thus by definition they hate Israel (and the USA), but politically they considered Israel to be their friends. Both are non-Arab countries surrounded by Arabs, and thus in the same situation.
Unfortunately, that runway hasn't been in use since the then-president of Israel was killed. His successor had a different view on Iran, and took the chanting seriously rather than accepting that it's for the cameras.
You can find the runway on Google Earth if you look carefully, look for the airport just south of Teheran, and then a bit south of that.