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Iran will build nuclear weapons if Tehran’s demands regarding economic sanctions are not met, according to a top government official.
“Our nuclear program is peaceful, and the fatwa by the supreme leader has forbidden nuclear weapons, but if they push Iran into that direction, then it wouldn’t be Iran’s fault but theirs,” Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said in newly published comments.
That threat is a little on the nose, even for the Iranian regime, and comes in the opening few weeks of President Biden s term as the two countries posture and pressure each other ahead of possible talks about Washington s return to a nuclear deal struck by the Obama administration and exited by the Trump administration.
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Iraqis demonstrate outside the US embassy in Baghdad
IRAN’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the assassination in January of top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Iraq, stating that the United States made a grave mistake by making such a coward move.
‘By cowardly assassinating Gen. Soleimani, US committed a grave mistake,’ the ministry said in a post published on its official Twitter page on Tuesday, as the anniversary of the crime draws near.
It added that Iraq’s parliament resolution calling on the government to end the deployment of all foreign military troops on the Arab country’s soil ‘is the beginning of the end of the malign presence in our region.’