NCRI – On Saturday December 17th 2016, state run Tasnim News Agency, reported that the head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi in a television program threatened that the nuclear activities will be resumed. Regarding the required amount of time to resume nuclear activities, Salehi stated, he could not say this clearly and openly but the bridges to success have not yet been burned.Salehi
also responded to the question, whether the new sanctions will slow down the nuclear activities or not? By saying: “we are doing our job in the technical aspect. The sanctions brought us problems in the banking transactions, nevertheless 70 percent of the pledged framework has been established.”
These are the most recent official statements which accuse the West and especially the US of the non-compliance with their obligations under the nuclear deal. The Iranian regime declaims against the US since the sanctions have been extended for another 10 years; the sanctions that had been imposed before the nuclear deal as well.
The US Senate passed a ten-year extension of sanction bill on Iran on 1st December 2016.The US House of Representatives earlier passed a 10-years extension of the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) by a vote of 419 to 1.In a dramatic gesture, the US President Barack Obama refused to sign the Act, however, he authorized the act to be performed.
This law was passed for the first time in 1996 to block all investments in Iran’s energy sector and to prevent the country from obtaining nuclear weapons.
The US Congress has passed the bill to warn Iran that the president of US is able to impose sanctions on Iran if the Iranian regime violates the principals of the nuclear deal. However, the officials of the Iranian regime have recently stressed that the US has violated the codes of the nuclear deal by passing the sanction bill on Iran.
Last week, the president Hassan Rouhani accused the US of negligence, delay, and breach of the nuclear deal. He also ordered the Iranian ships to be equipped with nuclear propulsion.