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Thursday, 21 July 2005 |
 Official Khamenei daily unveils Tehran’s resolve to obtain nuclear weapons
In a brazen blackmail aimed at preventing referral of its nuclear file
to UN Security Council, the clerical regime threatens to resume work at
Isfahan and Natanz sites
In its lead article yesterday, entitled, “Don’t threaten us with the
Security Council,” the daily Kayhan, controlled by Supreme Leader Ali
Khamenei and close to mullahs’ new president, wrote brazenly that under
no circumstances would the regime abandon “using nuclear fuel cycle
technology.”
In a blatant blackmail aimed at preventing the referral of its nuclear
file to the United Nations Security Council, the daily wrote that if
the EU-3 did not recognize Tehran’s right to use that technology, the
regime would have no interest in “abiding by the Nuclear
Non-proliferation Treaty,” “immediately resume work in Isfahan uranium
facility” and “accelerate dramatically preparations at Natanz
enrichment site and move to start it up.”
The daily added, “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s principle-guided government
will demonstrate greater motivation and capability to insist on Iran’s
rights than the West could ever imagine. Popular backing would provide
it with many possibilities of surprising maneuvers.”
Confident of EU’s appeasement policy, it wrote, “Iran has incalculable
capacity to destabilize the entire Middle East. Given the circumstance,
this destabilization could include a wide range of activities from
limited local clashes to plunging the entire region into chaos and
clashes.” Recalling the regime’s military capabilities “in missile
defense, armor, ground forces and air power as well as asymmetrical
warfare that would directly target the enemies’ weaknesses,” it warned
of using weapons of mass destruction.
In a hollow show of force, the paper unveiled the regime’s concealment
and deception in its nuclear weapons projects. It wrote, “Westerners
know almost nothing about Iran’s nuclear facilities, pre-emptive
military power and potential defensive capabilities.”
Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of
the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said, “Having undertaken
the biggest internal purge in the past 26 years, Khamenei has resorted
to this hollow show of force to dissuade the international community,
particularly the European countries, from referring Tehran’s nuclear
file to the UN Security Council.”
Pointing to comments by Hossein Moussavian, Tehran’s nuclear point man
in talks with the EU-3, he said, “Nothing has helped the mullahs more
in inching closer to the nuclear bomb than the two-year talks with the
EU-3.” “Not only preserved Iran’s nuclear capabilities and saved them
from any possible danger, such a military attack, but the circumstances
enabled Iran to continue completing its capabilities. For example,
Isfahan’s UCF project was completed during this period and is now ready
for use,” Moussavian boasted.
Reiterating that any appeasement of the mullahs’ would only embolden
them in their crimes against the Iranian people, efforts to acquire
nuclear weapons and export terrorism and fundamentalism, Mohaddessin
called for the immediate referral of Tehran’s nuclear file to the UN
Security Council and an end to the shameful policy of appeasement.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 21, 2005 |
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