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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: 2) by Arik on Wednesday August 16 2017, @01:00AM

    by Arik (4543) on Wednesday August 16 2017, @01:00AM (#554509) Journal
    "What happens if the current ayatollahs are all executed for being to moderate?"

    I assume you meant 'too moderate.' Not only does it look very unlikely at present (the country has been consistently electing moderate-reformists and liberalizers) but the only way that it would seem plausible in the future would be if the country becomes significantly poorer. That's what sanctions are supposed to do, though of course quite often they wind up doing little to nothing anyway.
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