News from
Jan. 14, 2014
For immediate release:
Hassan Rouhani, nuclear
cheat
Now it’s
official: for Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, the nuclear deal struck
with the West in Geneva in November was just an excuse to get sanctions
relief, and Iran has no intention of scaling back its nuclear
ambitions. ”Our relationship w/the world is based on Iranian nation’s
interests,” Rouhani tweeted on Jan. 14. “In Geneva agreement world
powers surrendered to Iranian nation’s will.”
The Islamic Republic’s “moderate” clerical president expanded on what
he meant by the West’s “surrender” in a speech in the oil-rich province
of Khuzestan today. “The Geneva agreement means the wall of sanctions
has broken. The unfair sanctions were imposed on the revered and
peace-loving Iranian nation,' he said (with
translation by the Associated Press). 'It means an admission by the
world of Iran's peaceful nuclear program.'"
The Iranian side has a very different view on what they agreed to in
Geneva than does Secretary of State John Kerry. Iranian negotiator
Abbas Araqchi revealed that the two sides would be bound by a 30-page
“non-paper,” which bore all the hallmarks of a secret side agreement –
something the State Department was quick to deny.
Araqchi was crystal clear that Iran believes the deal means the
continuation of all Iranian nuclear research programs and facilities.
“No facility will be closed; enrichment will continue, and qualitative
and nuclear research will be expanded,” he told
the Iranian Students News Agency on Monday. “All research into a
new generation of centrifuges will continue."
Rouhani publicly gloated over fooling the West in his last nuclear
negotiation when he ran for president last year. In
a televised interview, he explained in detail how he tricked the
EU-3 negotiators in talks from 2003 to 2005. Instead of shutting down
or even slowing its nuclear development, Rouhani boasted that
centrifuge production actually increased, and Iran managed to finalize
its Uranium Conversion Facility in Isfahan, all the while pretending it
has "suspended" its enrichment program. without the conversion plant
(often known as the "hex" plant, since that's where Iran transforms
uranium yellowcake into Uranium hexafluoride for gaseous enrichment),
there could be no enrichment.
and facility production
Media contact: Kenneth R. Timmerman
President & CEO
Foundation for Democracy in Iran
301-946-2918
exec@iran.org