Iran has upped its game in eager anticipation of a Biden Administration and its stated intention to reinstate the Iran nuclear deal.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu two years ago warned the UN of Iran’s breaches of the deal. He offered proof that the deal was based on lies, and that Iran was, contrary to its denials, working toward developing nuclear weapons.
Now, the EU has warned that Iran’s move to enrich uranium to 20 percent would be a “considerable departure” from Tehran’s commitments under the deal, and would have “serious nuclear non-proliferation implications.”
Iran’s “considerable departure” from commitments is intentional; the EU should know this. Iran has no respect or interest in fair engagement with the EU, or any infidel entity, for that matter. Iran’s chief priority is to gain hegemony over the Islamic world and expand its regime into a new Persian (Islamic) empire. The EU continues to be duped by Iran, and a Biden administration will serve to enable Iran, allowing it to continue where the Obama administration left off.
“Iran seizes tanker, ramps up uranium enrichment in fresh escalation with West,” by Ali Arouzi and Saphora Smith, NBC, January 4, 2021:
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has resumed enriching uranium up to 20 percent in the country’s biggest breach yet of its landmark nuclear deal with world powers, a government spokesperson told state-run Mehr News on Monday.
Also Monday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seized a South Korean-flagged ship carrying thousands of tons of ethanol in the Persian Gulf, according to the state-linked news agencies IRIB and FARS News.
Raising enrichment puts Iran a technical step away from enriching at 90 percent, the level needed to produce a nuclear warhead. Before the announcement, Iran was enriching uranium at around 4.5 percent, in violation of the nuclear pact but at a significantly lower level.
Tensions between the United States and Iran have been simmering in the last days of President Donald Trump’s administration. Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, setting off a series of escalating incidents that culminated in the killing of a top Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani, in Iraq on Jan. 3, 2020. Thousands of people took to the streets in Iraq to protest his death Sunday.
Iranian officials said the uranium is being enriched at the Fordo nuclear facility, which is hidden deep inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom. Under the terms of the nuclear deal, Tehran is allowed to enrich uranium at only around 3.5 percent, and no enrichment is allowed at the Fordo plant.
The deal stipulates that in exchange for agreeing to limit its uranium enrichment, world powers would grant Iran sanctions relief.
Since the U.S. pulled out of the pact in May 2018 and reimposed crippling sanctions, Tehran has steadily breached its commitments, prompting alarm among the five other parties to the deal: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia and China…..
mortimer says
No one fears Biden, not even Harris. Biden is the ultimate yes-man.
gravenimage says
Emboldened by prospect of Biden administration, Iran seizes tanker, ramps up uranium enrichment
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The Mullahs are not even waiting for Biden to settle into the White House…
OLD GUY says
Iran’s leaders cheering when Trump lost the election was heard world wide. They see the Glory days of islam on the horizon without the U.S. standing in their way.
Will Biden’s promise to open migration to Muslim countries mean we will now have rape grooming gangs, child marriage, honor killing, rape of non-muslim women and children, burning of churches, call to prayers 5 times a day, beheading of those who speak out against islam. Scary thought!