Sounds to me like they are planning on continuing their nuclear program. If not, why are they even thinking about sanctions in the future?
Zarif: Iran Will Return To Its Nuclear Program Faster Than Sanctions Can Be Re-Imposed
by TheTower.org Staff | 08.04.15 4:05 pm
The sanctions regime imposed on Iran for its illicit nuclear program has been destroyed and cannot easily be re-instituted, Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Monday.
Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported:
“The structure of the sanctions that the US had built based on the UN Security Council’s resolutions was destroyed and like the 1990s when no other country complied with the US sanctions against Iran, no one will accept the return of the sanctions (in the future),” Zarif said on Monday, addressing a meeting at Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations which is being headed by former Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi.
He dismissed western officials’ remarks that the sanctions can be re-imposed against Iran in a short period of time, and said such a process needs several years while Tehran’s return to its past nuclear activities can be done in a shorter time if the world powers don’t remain committed to their undertakings.
Zarif’s observation that Iran could “return to its past nuclear activities” more quickly than sanctions could be re-imposed effectively echoes a veiled threat made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the end of June that if the West walked away from a deal, “we will go back to the old path, stronger than what they can imagine.”
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Zarif: Iran Will Return To Its Nuclear Program Faster Than Sanctions Can Be Re-Imposed
by TheTower.org Staff | 08.04.15 4:05 pm
The sanctions regime imposed on Iran for its illicit nuclear program has been destroyed and cannot easily be re-instituted, Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Monday.
Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported:
“The structure of the sanctions that the US had built based on the UN Security Council’s resolutions was destroyed and like the 1990s when no other country complied with the US sanctions against Iran, no one will accept the return of the sanctions (in the future),” Zarif said on Monday, addressing a meeting at Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations which is being headed by former Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi.
He dismissed western officials’ remarks that the sanctions can be re-imposed against Iran in a short period of time, and said such a process needs several years while Tehran’s return to its past nuclear activities can be done in a shorter time if the world powers don’t remain committed to their undertakings.
Zarif’s observation that Iran could “return to its past nuclear activities” more quickly than sanctions could be re-imposed effectively echoes a veiled threat made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the end of June that if the West walked away from a deal, “we will go back to the old path, stronger than what they can imagine.”
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Zarif Iran Will Return To Its Nuclear Program Faster Than Sanctions Can Be Re-Imposed The Tower?