Sentence examples for pursue a weapon from inspiring English sources

Today, as suspicions about Iran's nuclear ambitions have provoked tough sanctions and threats of military confrontation, top administration officials have said that Iran still has not decided to pursue a weapon, reflecting the intelligence community's secret analysis.

Interest in the changing internal Iranian political dynamics is minimal, as the general opinion is that the Iranians will still pursue a weapon even if they have a new government.

Then we hear the PM says no deal is better than a bad deal and invoke the resonance of the Holocaust.. and POTUS disparage an approach that offers no alternative than either war or allowing Iran to pursue a weapon without constraint.

If such a decision was made and Iran opted to withdraw from the NPT, the underground site at Fordow, excavated from the base of mountain near the city of Qom, would provide Iran a base to pursue a weapons programme that was impervious to aerial attack.

Mr. Samore insisted that Mr. Obama's decision did not amount to making a nuclear threat against Iran, which many Western countries believe is pursuing a weapon.

But with the doubts now that Iran is actively pursuing a weapon, Russia and China — which have deep commercial and oil ties to Iran — have balked, agreeing only to a greatly watered-down set of sanctions that has yet to go to the Security Council for a vote.

"Even if Iran is not pursuing a weapons programme, such sanctions will force it to do so in hope of getting economic stability".

But it insists that some UN sanctions must stay in place until Iran has convinced the international community it has no intention of pursuing a weapons programme, a task that could take many years.

But it insists that some UN sanctions must stay in place until Iran has convinced the international community it has no intention of pursuing a weapons programme, a task which could take many years.

Prime minister's director of communications and strategy, 1997-2003 Campbell has long been linked with the "dodgy" dossier of September 2002 alleging Saddam was pursuing a weapons of mass destruction programme.

Meanwhile, at a meeting of the I.A.E.A. in Vienna, the United States ambassador, Kenneth Brill, contended that Iran is "aggressively" pursuing a weapons program, and at the White House Mr. Fleischer said it made no sense for an oil-rich nation to spend so much money to produce nuclear power to produce energy.