Iranian
President Crows Deal Recognizes Country's Nuclear Status
by IPT News • Jul 16, 2015 at
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World superpowers now recognize a nuclear Iran, the Islamic Republic's
President Hassan Rouhani claimed Tuesday immediately after the announcement
of an agreement over Iran's nuclear weapons program.
He also boasted that Iran will maintain over 6,000 centrifuges, according
to a Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) translation of his speech published by Tasnim news
agency.
Tuesday marked "a day when, historically, the largest countries in
the world and the superpowers officially recognized Iran's nuclear
activity," Rouhani said after the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
was released between Iran and the P5+1 in Vienna.
Iran, he said, accomplished its four main objectives from the
negotiations.
"The first was to continue the nuclear capabilities, the nuclear
technology, and even the nuclear activity. The second was to remove the
mistaken, oppressive, and inhuman sanctions. The third was to remove the
Security Council resolutions that we see as illegitimate. The fourth was to
remove the nuclear dossier from Chapter VII of the UN Charter and the
Security Council in general."
More importantly, Rouhani outlined specific concessions won from the
P5+1 over nuclear centrifuges Iran will be allowed to retain.
"At the start of the negotiations, the other side would tell us
that during the period of restrictions – which today is set at eight years
– Iran could have only 100 centrifuges. After many deliberations, they
arrived at 1,000. Because of great opposition [on our part], they said
4,000 and that this would not change. Today, the agreement is carried out
under conditions that state that [Iran] will retain over 6,000 centrifuges,
over 5,000 of which will be at Natanz and over 1,000 at Fordo. All
centrifuges at Natanz will continue to enrich [uranium]."
Initially, the negotiations envisioned no centrifuges at the Fordo
uranium enrichment plant, but "I will be brief and say that today,
over 1,000 centrifuges will be installed at Fordo, and part of Fordo will
be used for R&D on stable isotopes."
Rouhani devoted part of his address to highlighting P5+1 capitulations.
For example, initial demands limited Iran for 20 years, with negotiators
insisting "'we will not capitulate any more.' But in the final days of
the negotiations, they went down to eight years."
Rouhani described similar success in eliminating economic sanctions
against Iran and in ending arms embargoes.
According to Rouhani, it went from "'Months must pass and you must
earn [our] trust so that later the sanctions can be gradually frozen – not
lifted,'" to his boast that, "Today I announce to the Iranian
nation that under this agreement, on the day the agreement is implemented
all the sanctions – even the embargo on weapons, missiles, and
proliferation – will be lifted as stated in the [Security Council]
resolution. All the financial and banking sanctions, and those related to
insurance, transportation, petrochemical [industries], precious metals, and
all economic sanctions will be completely lifted, not frozen. Even the arms
embargo will be stopped. There will be a type of restrictions for five
years, and after that they will be lifted."
It is important to note that issues related to Iran's human rights
record and global sponsorship of terrorism were not part of the
negotiations. Many experts and critics of the deal believe that sanction
relief and the lifting of weapons embargos will enable the Islamic
Republic to enhance its regional hegemonic ambitions and international
terrorist activity.
Rouhani concluded his address by mocking Israel's criticism of the
negotiations.
Not only Iranians are happy, he said, "but also the people in Gaza,
the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Lebanon are happy too because the hollow
efforts of the oppressive Zionist regime to thwart the negotiations during
the past 23 months have failed... And finally, [to the] nations of the
region and neighboring countries: Do not be misled by the propaganda of the
Zionist regime and the evil-mongers of this [Iranian] nation. Iran and its
might are always your might. We see the security of the region as our
security, and the stability of the region as our stability."
The Islamic Republic has consistently called for the destruction of the
Jewish state and remains committed to "wiping Israel off the map."
Israel and most Sunni Arab countries, particularly in the Gulf, are
highly skeptical of this agreement and fear a nuclear Iran will be further
emboldened to increase its destabilizing presence in the region.
Read the full MEMRI report here.
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