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Iran’s revenge for the murder of its top nuclear scientist has sparked debate. The scientist’s body has now received its final respects prior to burial.
As reported AFPOn Monday (11/30/2020), Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh died from his injuries during a shootout between his bodyguards and a group of gunmen in Tehran last week.
Two days later, the Iranian parliament asked the international inspectors of Iran’s nuclear sites to stop inspections. Senior Iranian officials have signaled that Iran must abandon the global non-proliferation agreement.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council normally handles decisions on Iran’s nuclear program and the parliament bill must be approved by Iran’s Guardian Council. President Hassan Rouhani has stressed that Iran will retaliate at the “right time” and will not rush into the “trap”.
The head of Iran’s Beneficiary Council, an arbitration and advisory body, Mohsen Rezai, stated that “there is no reason why (Iran) should not reconsider the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty.” Rezai said Iran should also stop implementing additional protocols, documents that govern inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities.
As reported by the ISNA news agency, Rezai called on Iran’s atomic agency to take “minimal measures” such as “stopping the online broadcast cameras, reducing or suspending inspectors and imposing restrictions on their access” to the nuclear sites of Iran.
Meanwhile, the head of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad-Bagher Galibaf, called for a “strong reaction” that would “deter and take revenge” against those responsible for Fakhrizadeh’s assassination. The Iranian parliament insisted that the “best response” to the assassination was “to revive Iran’s glorious nuclear industry.”
In a statement signed by 290 members of the Iranian parliament, he said the killings showed that Israel, the United States (US) and their allies had turned “brazen” in “terror and sabotage” against Iran.
The statement called on inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to be banned from visiting Iran’s nuclear sites. Several Iranian lawmakers have previously accused IAEA inspectors of acting as “spies” potentially responsible for Fakhrizadeh’s death.
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