Iran’s Parliament approves outlines of strategic action plan to counter sanctions
…from PressTV, Iran
[ Editor’s Note: As I have said here many times, neither Iran, China nor Russia ever overreact to Western aggression, be it diplomatic, military or political, by abrogating agreements.
Soon after the assassination, Tehran quickly led with somewhat of a feint, promising to take specific retaliation at a time and manner of its choosing. This was reasonable, on the grounds that they had not finished their investigation of the high tech killing.
Israel was either really dumb for baiting Iran by leaving equipment traceable to Israel at the scene, or else someone was really smart by trying to tie Israel up as the goat to encourage a quick Iran retaliation attack. Might Israel want a retaliation attack so it could launch an even bigger response?
By this increased jump in uranium reprocessing, Tehran is sending a message that it is no longer going to be kept in the sanctions dog house.
Having the Western JCPOA participants continuing to break the agreement was one thing. But the killing of Iran’s nuclear scientists is an act of war. Iran has to assume such attacks will continue unless there is an adverse price to pay by the appropriate party.
The big question on Iran as to its nuclear capability is not how much uranium it has. Without a tested bomb design, Iran’s uranium is no threat to anyone. If it is forced to use a prototype in retaliation to a first strike, there is no international adverse law that would pertain to Iran but the law of the jungle.
Under the UN charter, all nations have a right to self-defense, so since Israel nuked and no one took action, Iran sure as hell is not going to let itself be a sitting duck.
It will never be able to obtain the security of the Iranian people until it has a credible deterrent. Pardon the expression, but this is not rocket science. It will take some realistic diplomacy on Biden’s part to back up from the brink we are at… Jim W. Dean ]
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First published … December 01,2020
Lawmakers at Iran’s Parliament have overwhelmingly endorsed the outlines of a strategic action plan, which aims to counteract sanctions imposed on the Iranian nation and safeguard its interests.
During an open parliamentary session on Tuesday, 251 out of 260 lawmakers present voted ‘yes’ to the outlines of the draft bill, which, if adopted, will require the Iranian administration to suspend more commitments under a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal.
The details of the bill will be reviewed in a second reading.
The plan, among other things, requires the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) to produce at least 120 kg of 20-percent enriched uranium annually and store it inside the country within two months after the adoption of the law.
Speaking during Tuesday’s session, Abolfazl Amooei, the spokesman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said the plan is meant to open the locks placed on the country’s nuclear program and advance the goals of nuclear martyrs such as Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was assassinated by suspected Israel-tied terrorists on Friday.
“The country’s nuclear program must proceed according to the needs of our country. When the plan is approved, we expect that it (the nuclear program) will be strengthened and developed, and that this trend will accelerate,” he added.
The plan, Amooei said, also seeks to make imposing sanctions against the Iranian people a “costly” measure for Western countries.
US President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled Washington out of the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in May 2018, and unleashed the “toughest ever” sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Since the much-criticized exit, Washington has been attempting to prevent the remaining signatories of the JCPOA – Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany – from abiding by their commitments and thus kill the historic agreement, which is widely viewed as a fruit of international diplomacy.
Iran remained fully compliant with the JCPOA for an entire year, waiting for the co-signatories to fulfill their end of the bargain by offsetting the impacts of American bans on the Iranian economy.
But as the European parties failed to do so, the Islamic Republic moved in May 2019 to suspend its JCPOA commitments under Articles 26 and 36 of the deal that cover Tehran’s legal rights.
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It’s time for the Aliens Living inside the Northern Hemisphere of the Moon to start some more “meddling” into the human race; we’ve already started planetary through wildfires and hurricanes and CIA openly developing deathly bio-weapons publishing its work in Medical Journals and also the destruction of SETI dish..listening is fine..but what if ‘they’ use telepathy? ..SETI was a waste of $ and its radio telescope crashed today.. It is very egotistical to think we are all alone in this Universe when on cave walls there are stars with no Moon.
They don’t need your “own” bomb design, they sure have North Korean or Chinese design available and only they need make a copy.
Old bomb designs are obsolete. It’s all about size and weight now. The smaller the better for putting them on missiles that are smaller, or to save weight to allow for more fuel and distance. They also have not been asleep in the mini-nuke situation, where you can launch several on a military target where only one is real and the others dummies. High radiation bombs are not in vogue to use in your own region.
If the nut zionists hit them with a nuke, at the urgency won’t care too much if design is new or old to retaliate, only need a working nuke to send zionist ass a nice blast way back
Europeans who have shipped off their trash once to America then to Western Asia at the parliamentary level are under the control of oligarchs like Vadim Rabinovich and the rest of the terrorist trash. They have created a split in the European Union with regards to the views on imposition of sanctions towards Iran especially the Brits the head of the snake. On one side they press for restraint from Iran but they don’t have the guts to stand up to the US treasury department who has all their banks under control and from the other end they keep selling their arms to the terrorist Wahhabis to keep the wars like Yemen going for another decade like in Afghanistan.
Biden says he’ll deal with the Saudis that means that he’s going to have to deal with the Brits and French etc.
And Canada as well.
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