Britain prevented Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon in 2008, but you’ll get it in 2014
Britain prevented Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon in 2008, but you’ll get it in 2014
Posted 14/07/2012 09:31 AM
Babinaoz (Reuters) – Head of the Foreign Intelligence British “MI6″ John Sayers, that the system clients frustrated Iran’s attempts to manufacture a nuclear weapon, but he warned that they will get it within about two years.
In a statement rare at a meeting in London last week published the newspaper ” Daily Telegraph “yesterday, said Sayers,” The covert operations for clients a “MI 6″ prevented the Iranians from developing nuclear weapons early in the year 2008, but it is now likely to achieve their goal by the year 2014, which will weigh and, increasingly, the potential the United States and Israel military strike against their nuclear facilities. ”
he said in a meeting with officials from the British government that Iran “has become a distance of two years from becoming a nuclear state and is determined to move forward on the path to master all aspects of nuclear weapons and techniques you need, when you come that moment will have to Israel or the United States to decide whether they are to be a military strike against it. ”
and pointed out that the deal a “MI 6″ with the threat of Iran, “another moment the terrible will turn to a country with nuclear, when it will be forced politicians to decide between accepting Iran as a state has a nuclear weapon or a military strike against it, and when comes the moment it will be very difficult for any Israeli prime minister or head of U.S. acceptance of Iran as a nuclear state. ”
and revealed that the device “MI 6″ ran “a series of covert operations to ensure the validity of the sanctions International imposed on Iran, and do everything in his power in the Middle East to slow down the problems related to its endeavors to acquire nuclear weapons. ”
In a related development, the United States imposed a new set of sanctions on Iran to increase this pressure.
announced that the U.S. Treasury Department, the night the day before yesterday, tightening financial sanctions on more than 50 entities Iranian because of its involvement in the nuclear program, and include mainly state-owned companies linked to the armed forces of Iran and the “Revolutionary Guards.”
The majority of entities involved in these sanctions are the basis for the sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury Department since 2005, most notably the supply of Iran’s armed forces and the Intergovernmental Authority Space Industries and the company Marine general and the “Revolutionary Guards.”
But many of these entities deliberately after inclusion on the list of black to change his name or was attached to the Ministries of the other, prompting the Treasury Department to update its list and the inclusion of these entities by their names the new .
For example, the ministry said it had “updated the information that allows identifying 57 vessels belonging to the company Navy General of Iran deliberately after inclusion on the list of black to change their names or flags of countries that lift them,” he added the names of seven ships new joined the fleet of Iran .
Source: babnews
