TEHRAN, YJC. The Majlis (parliament) has devised retaliatory plans if the US imposes more sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
The Majlis has "seriously considered scenarios” to make the
US regret if the Congress chooses to impose new sanctions on Iran, Parliament
Speaker Ali Larijani said at a press conference held in Tehran on Saturday,
after a meeting with his Georgian counterpart.
He pledged that a "jump in Iran’s nuclear technology” will
occur in case of fresh sanctions, saying Tehran is absolutely capable of doing
that.
Larijani made it clear that Iran has already shown the
necessary flexibilities in the course of nuclear talks with six world powers,
noting that US President Barack Obama’s struggle with the Congress is his own
problem and Iran does not have to pay the price for the political infighting in
the US.
The speaker reiterated that Iran is controlling the
situation, stressing that Washington will be held accountable for possible
failure of nuclear talks.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain,
France and Germany) are in talks to hammer out a final agreement to end more
than a decade of impasse over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.
On Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
warned that if the US Congress imposes fresh sanctions on Tehran, the Iranian
parliament will retaliate by adopting a bill to further expand the country's
nuclear enrichment level.
The parliament "will adopt something requiring the
government... to increase our (uranium) enrichment," Zarif told a panel
discussion at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss city of Davos.