{"id":74040,"date":"2019-03-14T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=74040"},"modified":"2019-03-14T14:59:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:59:22","slug":"iran-threatens-defense-overhaul-to-counter-suspicious-nuclear-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/03\/14\/iran-threatens-defense-overhaul-to-counter-suspicious-nuclear-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Threatens Defense Overhaul to Counter &#8216;Suspicious Nuclear Projects&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hdr-container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-2 pull-left article-share\">\n<aside class=\"share flex-column js-share--apply-sticky js-share--expandable js-share--horizontal\" data-extended=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74043\" src=\"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/EnglishNuclearWEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/EnglishNuclearWEB.jpg 290w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/EnglishNuclearWEB-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/EnglishNuclearWEB-24x17.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/EnglishNuclearWEB-36x25.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/EnglishNuclearWEB-48x33.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>VOA &#8211; A senior Iranian security official on Wednesday accused regional powers of spending money on &#8220;suspicious nuclear projects,&#8221; and warned that such threats would force Tehran to revise its defense strategy. Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council, did not name the countries \u2014 but a proposed transfer of U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia has raised concerns in Tehran. The United States, Israel and other allies say Iran&#8217;s own nuclear program is a threat to global security. Iran insists its atomic work is entirely peaceful, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a religious decree against the development of nuclear weapons.<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;Some countries in the region are spending their petro-dollars on suspicious nuclear projects that can endanger the security of the region and the world,&#8221; Shamkhani was quoted as saying by Fars news agency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-10 col-lg-10 pull-right\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-8 col-lg-8 pull-left bottom-offset content-offset\">\n<div id=\"article-content\" class=\"content-floated-wrap fb-quotable\">\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>&#8220;New threats like this will force us to revise our strategy based on the nature and geography of new threats, and predict the requirements of our country and armed forces,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Animosity between Washington and Tehran \u2014 bitter foes since Iran&#8217;s 1979 revolution \u2014 has intensified since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from an international nuclear deal with Tehran last May and re-imposed sanctions lifted under the accord.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the United States last month of hypocrisy for trying to wreck Iran&#8217;s nuclear program while seeking to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, Tehran&#8217;s regional rival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA &#8211; A senior Iranian security official on Wednesday accused regional powers of spending money on &#8220;suspicious nuclear projects,&#8221; and warned that such threats would force Tehran to revise its defense strategy. Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council, did not name the countries \u2014 but a proposed transfer of U.S. nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}