Iran returns to enrich uranium and launches a challenge: "Nobody should fear the apparent size of the United States"

The Iranian authorities announced Wednesday morning that the country officially abandoned some of its commitments envisaged in the nuclear agreement signed in 2015, as they had warned last week and as a result of the orders of the Supreme National Security Council.

According to the official Iranian news agency ISNA, Tehran has launched a program to suspend some of its nuclear bonds due to the lack of protection of the Islamic Republic against the sanctions imposed by the United States since the abandonment of the pact a year ago.

Iran's President, Hasan Rohani, had already warned that the country had planned resume uranium enrichment activities high level and would start rebuild your heavy water reactor Arak if the rest of the signatory countries (UK, France, China, Russia and Germany) have not kept its promise to protect Iran's oil and banking sectors from US sanctions.

For their part, the European Union and the powers of Western Europe made it clear Wednesday that they did not accept the "ultimatums" of Iran and warned that they would re-impose sanctions if Tehran did not respect its nuclear commitments.

Tensions increased at the time of the first anniversary of the US abandonment of the nuclear pact. Since the end of the agreement, the US government reactivated sanctions against the Islamic Republic and commissioned countries around the world who Stop buying Iranian oil under caution to be penalized for these purchases.

Despite heightened tensions in the Persian Gulf, where US warships have been displaced, Iran's top ruler, Ali Khamenei, has ruled out a war with the United States and renegotiating with Washington, an option he has termed of "toxic".

"The final option of the Iranian nation will be the resistance against the USA and, in this clash, the United States will be forced to withdraw, "said the supreme leader at a meeting with other leaders of the country last night.

Khamenei stated that this confrontation was not military but "a clash of wills: neither we nor they seek a war"He also said that"no one should fear the apparent size of the US"nor his military deployment in the Persian Gulf because," he added, "his true power is much less."

In his view, the negotiation represents "a mutual exchange" and the US is only trying "eliminate the defensive capabilities of Iran", especially its missile programs, and its regional influence so Tehran can not react to a possible attack.