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Iran Parliament Committee Approves Uranium Enrichment Bill
An Iranian parliamentary subcommittee has approved a bill requiring the government to resume uranium enrichment, the Associated Press reported yesterday (see GSN, July 6). “The committee approved the bill a few days back,” lawmaker Kazem Jalali said yesterday. “If approved by the parliament, the government will be required to restart enrichment,” he added. The bill is set to be considered next week by parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, Jalali said. If approved, the full parliament would next vote on the legislation. If passed by parliament, the bill would then come under scrutiny by the Guardian Council, a hardline body that must approve all legislation. The council is unlikely to reject the uranium enrichment bill, according to the Associated Press (Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press/Gainesville Sun, July 6). Meanwhile, the country’s defense minister warned that Iran would abandon its commitments to the International Atomic Energy Agency if its nuclear installations were ever attacked, the Islamic Republic’s official news agency IRNA reported today. “Today the IAEA holds every detail on Iran’s nuclear program,” Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani said, according to Agence France-Presse. “If there is a military attack, that would mean that the IAEA has been collecting this information to prepare for an attack. Naturally, after such an action, it would be necessary to renounce all of our nuclear commitments,” he added. “The United States and the other enemies of the Islamic Republic must know that we will respond to a military action against our country with all our force,” Shamkhani said (Agence France-Presse/Middle East Online, July 7).
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