Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has warned that there are “retaliatory plans” in place in the event that the US Congress follows through on efforts to impose new sanctions against them.
Larijani promised a “jump in expanding Iran’s nuclear technology” if new sanctions are put in place, saying there should be no question about Iran’s capability to do that.
Nuclear expansion would likely violate the P5+1 interim nuclear deal, though so would new US sanctions, so both countries’ legislatures are drawing up plans to kill the pact, and likely the negotiations.
Iran’s parliament has plenty of hardliners who, like US Congressional hawks, would love to kill the negotiations. They are constantly taking Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to task for meeting with US officials, though so long as the negotiations remain supported by Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, their options are limited.
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No, both countries are not drawing up plans to kill the pact. The US is drawing up plans to kill the pact. Iran is drawing up plans about what it will do if the US kills the pact. Very different. One is a breach of the agreement, the other is imposing a price for breaching the agreement.
Excellent! And accurate.
It's about time for the iranian government to dissolve any upcoming date for talking further on the subject, USG/British/AIPAC or let say IMF and european centeral bank are not interested, never was, to achieve a concrete outcome of the negotiated matters involving nuclear agreement. They will continue lie about anything and everything as their demands are nowhere to end.
Obama will veto any new sanctions. And they would kill the talks. What are they thinking ? Can the US afford a war with Iran with the Hormuz Strait closed and Silkworm supersonic cruise missiles can sink all their "great" ships. And there's no defence against Silkworm bought in China. Following a war with Iran our economy will be like it was in 1932. Can the US afford that – and for no reason at all ? Only that they suffer from Hybris and they are stupid, crazy, traitors. 16 US Intelligence Agencies say that Iran IS NOT working on nuclear weapons and if they ever did, that work stopped completely in 2003. But facts don't matter, do they ?
"And there's no defence against Silkworm bought in China."
Well, let's see …
1) China stopped selling Silkworms to Iran circa 1989. Iran's current arsenal of "Silkworms" are domestically manufactured. Whether or not they are up to the original Chinese quality control standard is an open question.
2) In the 1991 war, Iraqi forces fired two Silkworms at the USS Missouri. One was shot down by HMS Gloucester with a Sea Dart missile and the other one missed its target. So the idea that there is "no defense" versus Silkworms is a little silly. Its operational performance is spotty at best.
That's not to say the Silkworms aren't dangerous. Given their large warhead size and the possibility that they might be fired in large volleys versus capital ships, they're certainly something to worry about. But possibly not as much so as the Russian Sunburn anti-ship missiles which Iran also fields.