Tehran, YJC. Lawmaker who has endorsed the 60-percent enrichment says it is to fight back the US Congress in increasing sanctions.
Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Mehdi Mousavi Nejad who is one of the
lawmakers indorsing the draft to order the government increase its uranium enrichment
level to 60 percent in interview with Tasnim said "Prior to this, 100 lawmakers
had signed the ‘draft obliging government to 60 percent uranium enrichment’. But
right now the number of the signatory has increased to 200 and the number is
going up.”
He further stated that the draft has been given to the Majlis
Speaker for further considerations.
Mousavinejad had earlier told Tasnim that the move is to
fight the US Congress back in its attempt to increase anti-Iranian sanctions;
the Majlis’s way of supporting the Iranian nuclear negotiators.