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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   
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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• Re:Peace (Score: 4, Touché) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 15 2017, @11:58PM

  by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday August 15 2017, @11:58PM (#554497)

  As for the argument about maintaining sovereignty, the best way you do that is to try to have good relations with all your neighbors. Or have good relations with allies that will help you maintain your sovereignty...

  Iran has experience with doing exactly that, but the CIA overthrew their democratically elected Government, and installed a brutal dictator who stayed in power for the next 25 years or so by repressing any dissent.

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