Iran is threatening to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in the wake of the failure of the latest negotiations between the Islamic regime and world powers.
Since the United States and European countries are not in compliance with the treaty and regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency, why should Iran be in compliance, asks Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the Iranian Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security of the regime's parliament.
"It is not acceptable for Iran to respect the NPT and the agency's regulations but America and the West disregard its articles such as article 6 (mandating reduction of nuclear weapons) and article 4 (Iran's nuclear rights)," Boroujerdi told Fars News Agency, an outlet run by the Revolutionary Guards. "Therefore there is no reason for Iran to remain a member of the NPT, and the parliament can review this status."
The world powers once again failed at Almaty, Kazakhstan, to get Iran to stop its uranium enrichment program and allow further inspections by the IAEA. The talks, which lasted two days, were held last week between Iran and the 5-plus-1 powers: the United States, Britain France, Russia, China, plus Germany.
"The Americans … tell us to stop enrichment to the 20 percent level, but not only enriching to this level but to even 30 percent and 50 percent is allowed within the (IAEA) regulations," Boroujerdi said. "America in the last 10 years insisted on Iran not having access to nuclear technology; however today, Iran after 10 years has reached full capability in the nuclear field, including extraction to uranium enrichment, and so therefore during these 10 years, America has been the loser and Iran the winner."
Boroujerdi said the world must accept Iran's right to uranium enrichment and remove sanctions, and should the regime's nuclear activities be referred again to the United Nations, it has the right to quit the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which would mean that the IAEA would no longer have access to monitor Iran's known nuclear sites.
Meanwhile, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday is to unveil two additional uranium-processing facilities in the central province of Yazd, according to the FNA news agency.
A recent analysis in Keyhan, the newspaper mouthpiece of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also referred to the West's demands over the past decade to not allow Iran to have a handful of centrifuges for research. But it said now the West "has knelt" in front of Iran because there are more than 10,000 centrifuges enriching uranium.
"During the last decade, the Resistance Front (Iran, Syria and Hezbollah) and Islamic Awakening (Arab Spring), led by the Islamic Republic of Iran, have managed to defeat the power of Zionist Christians in four corners of the Middle East and have forced America to beg for negotiations," the analysis said, adding that the future is bright for Iran and that America is hopeless.
Also, Mashregh News, a media outlet run by the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence unit, said the Obama administration's plan to contain Iran will continue to fail and that Obama knows that pressure for sanctions within the United Nations has peaked and that he does not have many cards to play.
"Despite the sanctions, Mr. Obama has failed to persuade Iran to change course," the report said, "and Iran has left no doubt about the direction of its nuclear program."
Mashregh, which reflects the view of the Islamic regime, said Iran's continuation of its nuclear program will help expand the country's anti-American policies in the region, which would force the United States to leave the Islamic world, from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, and it would not be farfetched to conclude that in the near future, the region would be controlled by the Islamic movement.
While Iran and the world powers haggled over the regime's known nuclear sites, WND revealed exclusively on March 20 a secret nuclear site. Satellite images show a massive site 14 miles long and 7.5 miles wide, including two installations deep in a mountain at which, according to a source, the regime is in the final stages of completing its program of arming its Shahab 3 missiles with nuclear warheads. Part of the site has an array of missiles and over 385 missile garages for mobile missile launchers.
Many American experts who have reviewed the images have expressed deep concern and have urged Congress to conduct a hearing on the Islamic regime's nuclear bomb pursuit.
The source, a high-ranking officer within the regime's Ministry of Defense, warned that the regime has successfully bought time through meaningless negotiations in reaching an "Objective Force" where not only it can survive an attack but provide a meaningful response.
The source concluded that if world leaders think North Korea's rhetoric is bad, they will experience daily uncertainty once the regime in the not-so-distant future arms its missiles with nuclear warheads where the instability in the energy market alone could crash the West's economy.