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"Mr President, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s latest report concludes that Iran has produced enough low-enriched uranium to make an atomic bomb.
Most alarming is the speed of Iran’s progress. According to the Agency’s estimates, Tehran has increased the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges by 34 times in less than three years. In the next five years, however, Iran plans to add 45 000 centrifuges to the existing 5 600. That will mean an ability to manufacture nuclear weapons on an industrial scale. That also means deliverable atomic bombs, considering developing missile capacity and the launching of Iran’s first satellite.
That means that the policy of containing Iran only by half-hearted sanctions and diplomacy has failed. It has only provided Tehran with the necessary time to complete its nuclear programme.
Therefore it is high time to abandon the de facto policy of appeasement and concentrate on a joint EU response to possible nuclear blackmail or an ultimatum by Iran. If then, too, negotiations ‘as usual’ are our only option, this will mean political surrender."@en1
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