Iran Nuclear Deal Delays Bomb By 10-15 Years: Top Defence Think-Tank

[ashok321]

Iran Nuclear Deal Delays Bomb By 10-15 Years: Top Defence Think-Tank


LONDON: The deal between world powers and Iran has delayed Tehran's acquisition of nuclear weapons by 10 to 15 years, the head of a top defence think-tank told AFP on Tuesday.

The agreement struck in Vienna in July between Iran and the permanent five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5 plus one) sees sanctions progressively lifted in return for Tehran ensuring its nuclear programme remains for civilian use.

"2015 was by and large a decent year for news on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," said John Chipman, the director-general and chief executive of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

"Principally because, of course, we did see in the last year the conclusion of the P5 plus one agreement on the Iranian nuclear file."
He was speaking after presenting the IISS's annual assessment of the global balance of military power.

"There are lots of sceptics as to how good an arrangement that is but there is some consensus that at least that it has delayed for some 10 years, and possibly 15 years, the acquisition by Iran of a nuclear weapon," he added.

"That's good proliferation news for the year 2015-2016."

 

[Salman_Farsi]

1 year, 10 years or 100 years; what's the importance when Iran wasnt ever going after nukes?!?

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

1 year, 10 years or 100 years; what's the importance when Iran wasnt ever going after nukes?!?

They are going to persecute you anyway, regardless of whether you wanted nukes or not.

If they are going to persecute you for having nukes anyway, them you might as well make them right? That was our thought process, they were never going to tolerate us anyway, so might as well build the capability first.

USA only tolerates their own puppets, anyone who wants an independent foreign policy is going to be at the receiving end of American crying for the rest of time.

 

[Salman_Farsi]

They are going to persecute you anyway, regardless of whether you wanted nukes or not.

If they are going to persecute you for having nukes anyway, them you might as well make them right? That was our thought process, they were never going to tolerate us anyway, so might as well build the capability first.

USA only tolerates their own puppets, anyone who wants an independent foreign policy is going to be at the receiving end of American crying for the rest of time.

Our ideology is that "If the enemy do something wrong, we shouldn't do it as well". This is what Iran has proven in the Iran-Iraq war...this is why Iran didn't follow a nuclear weapon program. No one could deny the capability of NWs, but I think we have sufficient stuff to create a real hell for our enemies. But I agree with the generality of your point of view...