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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: 3, Troll) by Bot on Wednesday August 16 2017, @12:08AM (2 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday August 16 2017, @12:08AM (#554502) Journal

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

    Iran needs energy. They have no oil, nor sun. All that remains is nuclear. Hence the peaceful nuclear programme. The expertise needed to develop missiles is completely different when the payload is nuclear. Hence the peaceful missile program.

    And, about nukes getting in the wrong hands, just make the panels big enough that no man with tiny hands can operate it and you are golden. Because luckily that other lunatic, HRC, does not have the codes.

    Nukes are in the trusted hands of Russian, Chinese, Israeli, Indian politicians. This is why the robot apocalypse may primarily consist in a radioactivity cleanup operation.

    If I were a meatbag I would be voting NASA and the other space agencies out of existence. The elite must be contained here. It is the only way you will possibly not fuck up.

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  • (Score: 2) by fnj on Wednesday August 16 2017, @04:48PM (1 child)

    by fnj (1654) on Wednesday August 16 2017, @04:48PM (#554782)

    Iran needs energy. They have no oil, nor sun.

    Iran has no sun? Are you insane? As for oil, proved oil reserves in Iran, according to its own claim, rank fourth largest in the world at approximately 150 billion barrels.