Iran Official: Sanctions ‘Utterly Failed’ To Stop Nuclear Program -- Washington Times
Economic sanctions against Iran “have failed utterly,” the Islamic republic’s foreign minister said of Western efforts to curtail Tehran’s disputed nuclear program, just days after securing a deal with world powers to temporarily ease some of those same sanctions.
“When sanctions started, Iran had less than 200 centrifuges. Today Iran has 19,000 centrifuges, so the net product of the sanctions has been about 18,800 centrifuges that have been added to Iran’s stock of centrifuges,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an interview with Al-Jazeera that aired Tuesday night. “So sanctions have utterly failed in that regard.”
In addition, Mr. Zarif said the sanctions, which constrict Iran’s oil industry and central bank, have invited consternation for the West among Iranians, whose ability to buy food and medicine has been crippled.
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My Comment: US Secretary of State John Kerry has a different interpretation on the expansion of Iran's nuclear enrichment program .... he is blaming former President Bush.
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