By: Kayhan Int’l
Iran’s resumption of the uranium enrichment process to 20 percent purity that started yesterday at the Fordow underground complex, although belated, is indeed a welcome decision.
It wasn’t a groundbreaking move, since the Islamic Republic had reached this milestone almost a decade-and-a-half ago as part of its peaceful nuclear project, before being forced to scale it down to a mere 3.67 percent uranium purity when its negotiators were outwitted in Geneva in 2015 to sign the so-called JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action).
It was a blackmail accord that never fully lifted the illegal sanctions on Iran besides failing to extract any concession from the opposite side, that is, Germany and the five self-imposed permanent members of the UN Security Council (Russia, China, France, Britain, and the US), except for release of a few billion dollars of Iran’s own illegally frozen reserves in other countries.
Moreover, JCPOA granted an unwarranted veto power to the US president to give his approval every three months – a highly flawed clause which Donald Trump unmanly exploited to unilaterally withdraw from the 7-nation international pact in 2018 and re-impose the illegal US sanctions, while the three European signatories (France, Germany, and Britain) never honoured their commitments.
For Iran it was nothing but a comedy of errors to reiterate every now and then that it was adhering to the letter and spirit of the JCPOA while none of the other parties to it bothered to fulfill their undertakings.
Some in Iran, which firmly rejected Trump’s criminal measures to renegotiate the treaty, had thought that the next man in the White House will unconditionally rejoin it and reverse his predecessor’s policy of economic terrorism, but the statements coming from president-elect Joe Biden and his advisors suggest he is no friend of the Islamic Republic.
Thus, following prominent scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s assassination in Tehran in late last November by Zionist-US agents, the Iranian parliament decided to approve a law, dubbed the Strategic Action Plan to Counter Sanctions.
The law requires the government to produce at least 120 kilograms of 20-percent enriched uranium annually and store it inside the country. It also calls for installation, gas injection, enrichment and storage of nuclear materials up to an appropriate enrichment degree within a period of three months using at least 1,000 IR-2m centrifuges.
Accordingly, Iran notified the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of its right to enrich uranium to 20 percent purity, as admitted by spokesman Fredrik Dahl last Friday.
The Islamic Republic doesn’t need a certificate from anyone, especially the dangerously nuclear-armed powers, to confirm that its atomic project is for peaceful purpose.
As a signatory of the NPT, Iran is fully entitled to enrich uranium to the degree of percentage required by its various industries.
This means it should be careful in allowing inspection by the IAEA inspectors, since in the past some of these persons have turned out to be spies and passed secrets to the US and the illegal Zionist regime.
Therefore, what is important for the Islamic Republic is not the JCPOA or any other accord that is prone to violations by the other signatories, but its own national interests, coupled with the stability of the region.
It wasn’t a groundbreaking move, since the Islamic Republic had reached this milestone almost a decade-and-a-half ago as part of its peaceful nuclear project, before being forced to scale it down to a mere 3.67 percent uranium purity when its negotiators were outwitted in Geneva in 2015 to sign the so-called JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action).
It was a blackmail accord that never fully lifted the illegal sanctions on Iran besides failing to extract any concession from the opposite side, that is, Germany and the five self-imposed permanent members of the UN Security Council (Russia, China, France, Britain, and the US), except for release of a few billion dollars of Iran’s own illegally frozen reserves in other countries.
Moreover, JCPOA granted an unwarranted veto power to the US president to give his approval every three months – a highly flawed clause which Donald Trump unmanly exploited to unilaterally withdraw from the 7-nation international pact in 2018 and re-impose the illegal US sanctions, while the three European signatories (France, Germany, and Britain) never honoured their commitments.
For Iran it was nothing but a comedy of errors to reiterate every now and then that it was adhering to the letter and spirit of the JCPOA while none of the other parties to it bothered to fulfill their undertakings.
Some in Iran, which firmly rejected Trump’s criminal measures to renegotiate the treaty, had thought that the next man in the White House will unconditionally rejoin it and reverse his predecessor’s policy of economic terrorism, but the statements coming from president-elect Joe Biden and his advisors suggest he is no friend of the Islamic Republic.
Thus, following prominent scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s assassination in Tehran in late last November by Zionist-US agents, the Iranian parliament decided to approve a law, dubbed the Strategic Action Plan to Counter Sanctions.
The law requires the government to produce at least 120 kilograms of 20-percent enriched uranium annually and store it inside the country. It also calls for installation, gas injection, enrichment and storage of nuclear materials up to an appropriate enrichment degree within a period of three months using at least 1,000 IR-2m centrifuges.
Accordingly, Iran notified the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of its right to enrich uranium to 20 percent purity, as admitted by spokesman Fredrik Dahl last Friday.
The Islamic Republic doesn’t need a certificate from anyone, especially the dangerously nuclear-armed powers, to confirm that its atomic project is for peaceful purpose.
As a signatory of the NPT, Iran is fully entitled to enrich uranium to the degree of percentage required by its various industries.
This means it should be careful in allowing inspection by the IAEA inspectors, since in the past some of these persons have turned out to be spies and passed secrets to the US and the illegal Zionist regime.
Therefore, what is important for the Islamic Republic is not the JCPOA or any other accord that is prone to violations by the other signatories, but its own national interests, coupled with the stability of the region.
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