Iran’s nuclear threat to the UK has rocketed, thanks to the EU & Biden
Part Two of our special and deeply troubling report
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Brexit Britain led the charge at the United Nations last week
Yesterday we reported on the EU’s complicity in the appeasement of the Iranian regime over many years and just how naïve this was. In Part Two today we reveal how big is the nuclear threat to the United Kingdom, as a result of misguided EU policy-making.
A Brexit Facts4EU two-parter on why you should be worried about Iran's nuclear threat
Part One : The unpleasant truth about the EU's complicity in Iran's nuclear weapons programme
Part Two : Brexit Britain leads the UN charge, showing just how wrong the EU was (This report)
Using information revealed at the UN Security Council last week, led and chaired by the United Kingdom, we summarise the threat posed by Iran, highlight the EU’s stupidity, and pose questions about what can now be done with Iran.
The UK leads the charge against Iran’s nuclear war threat
On Thursday last week (06 July 2023) the UK chaired a UN Security Council meeting and followed up with a statement co-signed by France and Germany. This was in relation to UNSCR Resolution 2231 on preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
The facts below are chilling and demonstrate the sheer naivete of the EU in supporting the ‘JCPOA’ agreement which President Trump withdrew from after he became President.
Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary
The growing disaster of the policy on Iran
- Iran has been in violation of its nuclear commitments for more than four years
- Stockpiles of Iran’s enriched uranium now stand at 21 times the amounts permitted
- These have no civilian use and can only be used in its nuclear weapons programme
- Iran has been hiding its activities from IAEA inspectors for years
- It has transferred missiles and drones to states and to terrorist groups in the region and beyond
- Iran continues to develop ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons
- Iran’s defence ministry announced on 25 May it had tested a missile capable of delivering a 1500kg warhead to a range of 2000 km
- Since its adoption, Iran has never stopped its ballistic missile programme
- Iran has made direct threats against the UK
[Source: UN Security Council, 06 July 2023.]
Should you be worried? Yes, and we warned about this even before the EU Referendum
Yesterday the UK-chaired UN Security Council discussed Iran’s nuclear activity, missile development and continued weapons proliferation inconsistent with UNSCR Resolution 2231.
Iran has been in violation of its nuclear commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA) for more than four years and its nuclear programme has escalated to dangerous levels. This is of the utmost concern for international peace and security.
Regarding enrichment, the IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Authority) reports that the total stockpiles of Iran’s enriched uranium now stand at 21 times the amounts permitted under the JCPoA. Iran’s stockpiles are unprecedented for a state without a nuclear weapons programme. In March of this year (2023), the IAEA reported it had detected uranium particles enriched to 83.7% at Fordow. Enriching to such levels is a very grave development, inconsistent with the JCPoA or even the levels declared to the IAEA.
Regarding R&D, Iran’s activities already have provided Iran with irreversible and significant knowledge gains that the JCPoA sought to limit, as have Iran’s activities on uranium metal in the recent years. For the first time since 2009, Iran also failed to report a change in centrifuge configuration at Fordow to the IAEA.
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Be in no doubt, this is Iran preparing to have missiles with nuclear warheads
Iran has no credible civilian justification for its continued escalation. It only brings Iran ever closer to weapons related capabilities.
Last week the UK-chaired Security Council also discussed key developments regarding Iran’s missile programme and its destabilising transfers of missiles and drones to state and non-state actors in the region and beyond.
Firstly, Iran continues to develop and improve ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. Iran’s defence ministry announced on 25 May it had tested a missile capable of delivering a 1500kg warhead to a range of 2000 km. This is inconsistent with UNSCR 2231. Since its adoption, Iran has never stopped its ballistic missile programme.
Secondly, Iran endangers the region and the whole international community through its weapons proliferation to what are known as ‘non-state actors’. In short, this means terrorist groups.
Iran is also arming terrorist groups and Russia with serious weaponry
The UK says it has compelling evidence from repeated interdictions of Iranian weapons in the region that Iran has continued to transfer UNSCR 2231-controlled weapons to non-state actors in the Middle East. These transfers are not permitted and violate this UN Security Council resolution.
Finally, Iran has escalated its violations by transferring hundreds of UAVs to Russia since August 2022. Deliveries took place in the knowledge that Russia uses them to target Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure. It has thereby knowingly supported Putin’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine.
Here is part of the statement issued by the UK, France and Germany
“Neither Russia nor Iran have ever sought authorisation for these transfers, which are therefore a breach of UNSC Resolution 2231 by both states. We condemn Iran’s continued disregard for its obligations under this Resolution, urge it to immediately cease this activity, and strongly caution Iran against any further deliveries or escalation of such violations.
“In light of such repeated violations, we encourage the Secretary General to instruct the UN Secretariat to examine and report on the ample evidence of Iran transferring weapons, materials, equipment, goods and technology or related services controlled by UNSCR 2231 as it has done so on several occasions in the past. We would welcome a visit by UN experts to Ukraine as requested by the Government of Ukraine and supported by us and other council members.
“We remain determined that Iran must never develop a nuclear weapon and must reverse its nuclear escalation. We are deeply concerned that against such dangerous dynamics, key restrictions of UNSC Resolution 2231, particularly on Iran’s ballistic activities and missiles transfers will expire in October. We recall that the restrictions of other relevant UNSC Resolutions will remain fully in place after that date.
“We emphasise once again our determination to find a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis, as demonstrated by our consistent efforts in that regard. We urge Iran to immediately de-escalate its ongoing activities.”
The direct threat to the UK
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said last week:
“The Iranian regime is oppressing its own people, exporting bloodshed in Ukraine and the Middle East, and threatening to kill and kidnap on UK soil.
“Today the UK has sent a clear message to the regime – we will not tolerate this malign behaviour and we will hold you to account.
“Our new sanctions regime will help to ensure there can be no hiding place for those who seek to do us harm.”
Observations
The pathetic appeasement approach taken towards Iran by former US President Barack Obama and the EU was only ever fantasy. For years Iran played along in order to avoid international sanctions. We said this at the time and we say it again now.
President Trump – whatever readers feel about him – was right to pull the US out of this insane deal. The UK should also have pulled out but at that time we were still members of the EU and Theresa May was trying to play ‘nicey-nicey’ to Brussels. In any event we are unconvinced she really understood the insanity of the EU’s position on Iran. When a pariah state like this makes direct threats against the United Kingdom there should be a swift and decisive response - but this will not happen under this government, nor the next one.
We should have imposed maximum sanctions on the Iranian regime years ago.
All of this has left us where we are today. A rogue regime is now close to having its own nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.
Israel
We welcome the strong words from the UK Foreign Secretary last week, but the actions do not go far enough. Immediate and draconian UK sanctions must be placed on Iran. The EU and the US must be compelled to follow, or be called out. Sadly it seems that President Biden is too feeble and the EU’s position is compromised.
We would advocate discussions with our allies about a military strike. We are not talking about 'boots on the ground'. An RAF squadron could take off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, together with planes from a US aircraft carrier in the western Mediterranean and conduct surgical strikes on all the Iranian nuclear sites known to our intelligence services and those of the US.
Aside from Brexit Britain there is one country which might take unilateral action and that is Israel. It would not surprise us if Israel were to take matters into its own hands, as it has done before.
Israel simply cannot afford to have a nuclear threat like Iran within the range of that dreadful regime's new ballistic weapons.
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