IT GETS WORSE BY THE DAY – AT 8:52 A.M. ET: Virtually every statement coming out of Iran regarding the nuclear "agreement" should set off alarm bells. We are being taken to the cleaners. From MNA, an Iranian news agency:
TEHRAN, Apr. 07 (MNA) – Iran’s Zarif, the foreign minister, and Ali Akbar Salehi attended a closed session in the Parliament today to brief the MPs on Swiss Statement regarding Iran and the 5+1 nuclear talks.
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Zarif was quoted to have asserted that the additional protocol must be passed by the Parliament. He stressed that Iran would allow no online cameras to be installed in nuclear facilities as the country had have several tragic experiences in which Iranian nuclear scientists had been assassinated due to having been identified.
“I have told the western diplomats that Iran is capable of making an atom bomb anytime it wills, but the one and only fact that has stopped us from doing so is Ayatollah Khamenei’s Fatwa (an Islamic legal pronouncement) and not the sanctions and pressures levied at the country,” Zarif was quoted as having said.
COMMENT: How encouraging. No online cameras? What are they hiding? Do we have to ask? And bragging that Iran is capable of making nuclear weapons at any time will not endear this "agreement" to the U.S. Congress. The big guy issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons? Fatwas can be reversed.
Congress takes up the nuclear negotiations with Iran next week. Congress must have a say, with or without Ayatollah Barack. Oh, I mean the president. Sorry. No disrespect meant.
April 9, 2015 |