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The Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, in a speech at the presence of clerical regime\u2019s leaders, including Hassan Rouhani, Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani and Ali and Sadeq Larijani, stressed on the imperative to preserve and expand regime\u2019s nuclear capacities and said: \u201cThey are planning to restrict enrichment to 10,000 SWU (Separative Work Unit) which is the yield of around 10,000 old-type centrifuges, while the definite need of the country is 190,000 SWU.\u201d<\/p>\n
Counting on the Western countries\u2019 policy of appeasement he added, the other side is taking a maximalist position so that we would concede to a lesser unfavorable offer\u2026 the U.S. has no right to express concern about the possibility of countries obtaining nuclear weapons since the U.S. has itself used this weapon and has currently several thousand nuclear bombs\u201d. Khamenei said that \u201cnuclear research and advancement surely ought to be observed in the negotiations\u201d and described the P5+1 request to close down Fordow site as absurd.<\/p>\n
Khamenei called the deadly crisis pressing his regime, especially after the developments in the region and Iraq, as \u201cbeing in a truly historical bottleneck\u201d and said that \u201ca mistake in calculation is among the most dangerous\u201d.<\/p>\n
He stated that \u201cthe enemy plans to create disruption in the calculation system of the Iranian officials so that they would not put goals contrary to U.S. interests on the agenda and this is the soft war that has been pointed to many years ago\u201d.<\/p>\n
Khamenei added: \u201cAs we have repeatedly stated, the nuclear issue is just a pretext and had it not existed, other fabricated pretexts such as human rights, women\u2019s rights, or other issues will be put on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n
In another part of his speech, he warned Hassan Rouhani about diminishing the role of the Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) and the Basij force and said: \u201cBe careful that in the country\u2019s political arena some people do not brush aside faithful currents using the slogan of moderation. Because it is this faithful current that at the time of peril comes to the defense and sacrifices sooner than anyone else and it also truly helps out the government in problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
In circumstances where regime\u2019s crises deepen and expand by the day, Khamenei is trying in vain to contain the crises by insisting on the continuation of the nuclear projects and anti-American policies.<\/p>\n
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 9, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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