NCRI – The British government has decided to tighten up a list of items the country’s firms can export to the Iranian regime based on worries about the regime’s nuclear program, the Observer reported on Sunday.
Mark Prisk, Britain’s business minister, said in a parliamentary statement that the risk the Iranian regime was using so-called dual-use equipment to develop its nuclear program was “so great that we need to go further,” the paper wrote.
In a notice to British exporters, the Department for Business Innovation & Skills said, “All licences will be refused except in cases where there is manifestly no risk.”
The Observer added that Mike Gapes, a member of the foreign affairs select committee in the British Parliament, who follows the situation in Iran closely, said extending the banned exports list was a logical move.
“It’s a general tightening, it’s not just designed to check Iran’s nuclear program but its economic activities, too,” Gapes was quoted as saying.
The British lawmaker warned, “The clock is ticking. The danger is this Iranian regime is set on establishing a nuclear weapons capability in the near future.”
