Monday, June 4, 2018

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei: 'Israel Is Cancerous Tumor That Must Be Removed And Eradicated'




AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI Threatens to "Eradicate" Israel, Orders Atomic Agency to Ramp Up Uranium Levels "Without Any Delay"



Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei threatened to eradicate Israel from the world in a Sunday tweet.


Then on Monday evening Supreme Leader order the country’s Atomic Energy Organization to ramp up production of uranium levels “without any delay.”


Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has ordered the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) to make preparations for enrichment of uranium up to a level of 190,000SWU without any delay.
Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a ceremony held at the Imam Khomeini Mausoleum in south Tehran to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the passing away of the founder of the Islamic Republic while talking about Iran’s nuclear deal with the P5+1 group of countries, which is officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

“It seems from what they say that some European governments expect the Iranian nation to both put up with sanctions and give up its nuclear activities and continue to observe limitations [on its nuclear program]. I tell those governments that this bad dream will never come true,” the Leader said.
Stressing that the Iranian nation and government cannot tolerate to be both sanctioned and be put in the “nuclear custody,” Ayatollah Khamenei ordered the AEOI to take rapid steps to make preparations for starting uranium enrichment “up to a level of 190,000SWU for the time being within the framework of the JCPOA” and take other preliminary steps that the president has ordered from tomorrow.
US President Donald Trump announced on May 8 that Washington was walking away from the nuclear agreement, which was reached between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the US, Britain, France, Russia and China – plus Germany.
Trump also said he would reinstate US nuclear sanctions on Iran and impose “the highest level” of economic bans on the Islamic Republic.







Iran’s top leader said Monday that anyone who fires one missile at his country “will be hit by 10” in response, but dismissed fears of war as “propaganda” by the West.
Tensions have soared since the US withdrew from the landmark 2015 nuclear accord, and vowed to restore sanctions unless Iran meets a list of strict demands.
In a speech, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also said he had ordered atomic authorities to increase the country’s nuclear enrichment capacity. The increase he detailed in his speech would not exceed limits set by the nuclear accord, which European countries have said they hope to salvage.

The agreement reached by the Obama administration, along with Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia and Iran, lifted international sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear activities.
Khamenei’s comments came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.
In a series of tweets on Sunday, Khamenei lashed out at Israel, calling the Jewish state the “cancerous tumor” of the region that must be “removed and eradicated.”
Netanyahu said that Iran would be the first and only subject on the agenda of his trip to Europe.

Intent on winning support for amending the nuclear deal with Iran and getting Iranian troops out of Syria, the prime minister will also meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May, both of whose countries are signatories to the deal.
Netanyahu warned Merkel that Iran’s presence in Syria should also worry Germany, given that Shiite militias there were intent on converting Sunni Muslims to their creed, with the result that a “new religious war” would break out in the Middle East and send further waves of refugees to Europe.
Israel fears that as the Syrian civil war winds down, Iran, whose forces and Shiite proxies have backed President Bashar Assad, will turn its focus to Israel.





The head of Iran’s nuclear agency said Tuesday his country is set to begin upgrading its uranium enrichment capabilities, hours after Tehran’s supreme leader ordered nuclear activity to ramp up and warned Europe it could pull out of the landmark 2015 nuclear accord.
Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi told Iran’s state-run ISNA media outlet early Tuesday that the agency will inform the IAEA nuclear watchdog of its plans Tuesday to up production of UF6 gas, also known as uranium hexafluoride.
The gas is meant to be injected in the IR-8 centrifuge, which Iran says enriches uranium 20 times faster than machines used before the nuclear accord was signed. Under the deal, use of the advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium is not allowed.

On Monday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he had ordered atomic authorities to increase the country’s nuclear enrichment capacity.

He said the increase would not exceed limits set by the nuclear accord, which European countries have said they hope to salvage.
Iranians say research into using IR-8 centrifuges is allowed under the deal, to prepare for the sunset of the accord, which Iran has threatened may fall apart after the US pulled out last month.


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