Iran could quit nuclear deal in 'hours' if US imposes new sanctions: Rouhani

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Iran could quit nuclear deal in 'hours' if US imposes new sanctions: Rouhani
  • Iran's President Rouhani said his country could quit its deal curbing nuclear work "within hours" if the U.S. imposes new sanctions
  • The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on six Iranian firms in late July over a ballistic missile program after Tehran launched a rocket capable of putting a satellite into orbit
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Iran could abandon its nuclear agreement with world powers "within hours" if the United States imposes any more new sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday.

"If America wants to go back to the experience (of imposing sanctions), Iran would certainly return in a short time - not a week or a month but within hours - to conditions more advanced than before the start of negotiations," Rouhani told a session of parliament broadcast live on state television.

Iran says new U.S. sanctions breach the agreement it reached in 2015 with the United States, Russia, China and three European powers in which it agreed to curb its nuclear work in return for the lifting of most sanctions.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the new U.S. sanctions were unrelated to the Iran nuclear deal and that Iran must be held responsible for "its missile launches, support for terrorism, disregard for human rights, and violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions."

"Iran cannot be allowed to use the nuclear deal to hold the world hostage ... The nuclear deal must not become 'too big to fail'," Haley said in a statement on Tuesday, responding to Rouhani.

Haley will travel to Vienna next week to discuss Iran's nuclear activities with U.N. atomic watchdog officials as part of Washington's review of Tehran's compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "considers the (Iran nuclear deal) to be one of the utmost diplomatic achievements in our collective search for peace and security," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters.

"We need to do whatever we can to preserve it," Dujarric said.

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Gas flare on an oil production platform in the Soroush oil fields is seen alongside an Iranian flag in the Gulf.
The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on six Iranian firms in late July for their role in the development of a ballistic missile program after Tehran launched a rocket capable of putting a satellite into orbit.

In early August, U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law new sanctions on Iran, Russia and North Korea passed by the U.S. Congress. The sanctions in that bill also target Iran's missile programs as well as human rights abuses.

The United States imposed unilateral sanctions after saying Iran's ballistic missile tests violated a U.N. resolution, which endorsed the nuclear deal and called upon Tehran not to undertake activities related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such technology.

It stopped short of explicitly barring such activity.

Iran denies its missile development breaches the resolution, saying its missiles are not designed to carry nuclear weapons.

"The world has clearly seen that under Trump, America has ignored international agreements and, in addition to undermining the (nuclear deal), has broken its word on the Paris agreement and the Cuba accord ... and that the United States is not a good partner or a reliable negotiator," Rouhani said.

Trump said last week he did not believe that Iran was living up to the spirit of the nuclear deal.
 
Hate to side w/fundamentalists looking at a nuclear arms race, but what good are contracts if one side is just going to renege? (NAFTA anyone?)
 
Tony Stark said:
If Trump fucks up this deal its full speed ahead for Iranian nukes or war to stop them.Thanks Trump.
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Surely you cant be this stupid, Clinton supposedly stopped Kim Jong Ill from developing nukes in the mid 90's by appeasing them, Bush talked tough and did nothing, then Obama literally just moved to flat out appeasing them....... and guess what happened, North Korea got nukes.

There is no deal here there is nothing for Trump to fuck up, these people are laughing at us in Iran cause we are just giving them space, you would have to be the biggest idiot in history to think Obama solved this problem, Iran will have nukes too within a couple years.
 
Even your favourite left wing sources who somehow drew the conclusion it was "False" that Clinton gave North Korea Nukes, basically conceded the fact that North Korea Reneged on all of the promises they made under Clinton.

But yeah we should probably put even more faith in Iran...... what kind of an idiot would think like that.

Tell me that the deal politifact lays out below sounds any different than Iran.


The Agreed Framework
While president, Clinton did broker a deal with North Korea, amid revelations that the country was building a full-scale processing facility to produce plutonium.

North Korea had kicked international inspectors out of the country in 1993, announcing its intention to pull out of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, an international agreement North Korea had joined in 1985.

By then, the North Koreans had separated enough plutonium from spent fuel from a reactor it had built while Clinton was governor of Arkansas to create a couple of nuclear weapons, according to Joshua Pollack, a senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

In October 1994, Clinton arranged a deal with incoming leader Kim Jong Il, whose father Kim Il Sung had died in July.

North Korea would have to take its current reactor offline and stop construction of two other reactors they said were for electricity.

In exchange, the United States would help the country build two so-called light-water nuclear reactors to produce power for the country. The light-water reactors would make it harder for North Korea to produce weapons-grade material. Those reactors were estimated to cost about $4 billion, and would be financed by South Korea, Japan, and possibly Germany, Russia and the United States, the Washington Post reported.

In addition, the United States would help provide heavy fuel oil to North Korea, which would have to halt plans to produce nuclear weapons and submit to international inspections. It would have to surrender spent nuclear fuel once the new reactors were built.

The deal, which did not require congressional approval, was referred to as the Agreed Framework. Clinton hailed it as a path to easing sanctions and normalizing diplomatic relations.

"This agreement will help achieve a longstanding and vital American objective — an end to the threat of nuclear proliferation on the Korean Peninsula," Clinton said of the deal.

End of the deal
Spoiler: The Agreed Framework failed.

North Korea accelerated its efforts to enrich uranium, which wasn’t a direct violation of the framework, and accused the United States of reneging on fuel oil promises. That certainly irked the George W. Bush administration, which cut off fuel oil shipments in 2002.

North Korea withdrew from the agreement, ending its obligation to abide by the deal’s terms. By 2006, North Korea claimed it had successfully tested a nuclear device.

To say that Clinton’s deal was the culprit is wrong, however.

Richard Nephew, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, said that while the Agreed Framework was flawed, it impeded North Korea’s ambitions. The meme misrepresented much about the deal.

"This is a problem that is years in the making, owned by bipartisan administrations, and — for a time, anyway — delayed by President Clinton rather than him giving North Korea nuclear weapons," Nephew said.

Importantly, Clinton didn’t give North Korea two reactors, because the construction was never completed.

You can even look up the unfinished sites online.

And the $5 billion figure the viral image cited wasn’t cash, but likely included the construction costs of the reactors (which were never completed) and energy aid. The Congressional Research Service noted in a 2014 report that the United States provided more than $400 million in heavy fuel oil to North Korea between 1995 and 2003.

The consortium created to oversee the reactors’ construction, the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, still exists on paper. It officially ended the light-water reactor project, but is still working "to settle financial and legal obligations stemming from the termination."

"All the North Koreans got out of it in the end is that they stole the construction equipment" for the reactors, Pollack said. "They also learned a few things about building that type of reactor. They’ve tried to make a small initial one themselves, but it appears to have been stalled for years now."

In the meantime, Pollack added, the North Koreans have created enough plutonium and enriched enough uranium to create as many as 60 nuclear bombs.

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Our ruling
An image circulating on the Internet claims "Bill Clinton gave North Korea $5 billion and two nuclear reactors in 1994, essentially giving them nukes."

Clinton did negotiate a deal in 1994 to provide two nuclear reactors and provide heavy fuel oil to North Korea in exchange for the country giving up its nuclear weapons program.

That's about where the truth of this image stops. The energy aid costs didn’t approach anywhere near $5 billion, and the reactors were never built. North Korea had continued to enrich uranium on its own, leading the Bush administration to end the deal. The agreement, while a failure, didn’t give North Korea nuclear weapons. Experts said the agreement actually slowed North Korea down.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfac...image-wrongly-blames-bill-clinton-giving-nor/
 
Max E. said:
Surely you cant be this stupid, Clinton supposedly stopped Kim Jong Ill from developing nukes in the mid 90's by appeasing them, Bush talked tough and did nothing, then Obama literally just moved to flat out appeasing them....... and guess what happened, North Korea got nukes.

There is no deal here there is nothing for Trump to fuck up, these people are laughing at us in Iran cause we are just giving them space, you would have to be the biggest idiot in history to think Obama solved this problem, Iran will have nukes too within a couple years.
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Tell Trump to go to war with them than.
 
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Tony Stark said:
Tell Trump to go to war with them than.
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Actually truth be told we have made the joke about making a fake "Kim Jong Un" twitter account, and tweeting Trump and telling him he has small hands, so he will throw the first punch. :D

Its crazy the market doesnt react to this shit, we have made the joke among ourselves the market wont react until nukes are in the air.

Dont get me wrong this shit is crazy but it sure as hell isnt Trumps fault, we just want to push him in too it. :D

Volatility will be Yyyyuge.
 
The Iranians could be teaming up with North Koreans.
Damn: that would attract all the countries wanting to go nuclear to these two.
 
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