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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, 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.