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Gopher
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 Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 1:03 pm Post subject: Security Council Approves Iranian Sanctions... |
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Saturday imposing sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, culminating two months of tough negotiations aimed at pressuring Tehran to return to negotiations and clarify its nuclear ambitions.
The resolution orders all countries to ban the supply of specified materials and technology that could contribute to Iran's nuclear and missile programs. It also imposes an asset freeze on key companies and individuals in the country's nuclear and missile programs named on a U.N. list.
If Iran refuses to comply, the resolution warns Iran that the council will adopt further non-military sanctions.
Iran insists its nuclear program is aimed solely at the peaceful production of nuclear energy, but the Americans and Europeans suspect Tehran's ultimate goal is the production of nuclear weapons.
In a lengthy speech to the council after the vote, Iran's U.N. Ambassador Javad Zarif denounced the council for imposing sanctions on Iran, while doing nothing about Israel whose prime minister recently confirmed long suspicions that it is a nuclear power.
"A nation is being punished for exercising its inalienable rights" to develop nuclear energy... |
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TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran condemned the U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran's nuclear work on Saturday as an illegal measure outside the council's jurisdiction.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told state-run television the resolution "cannot affect or limit Iran's peaceful nuclear activities but will discredit the decisions of the Security Council, whose power is deteriorating."
The resolution, which the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved, imposed sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and ballistic missiles in an attempt to get Tehran to halt uranium enrichment work.
Iran also accused the U.N. Security Council of pursuing a double standard in imposing sanctions on what it said was Tehran's peaceful nuclear program while ignoring Israel's nuclear arsenal.
"It is indisputable that nuclear weapons in the hands of the Israeli regime with an unparalleled record of noncompliance with Security Council resolutions ... poses a uniquely grave threat to regional and international peace and security," Iranian U.N. Ambassador Javad Zarif told the 15-nation council.
Earlier Saturday, Iran's parliamentary speaker said parliament would alter Iran's relationship with the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, if the U.N. Security Council issued sanctions against Iran.
"If they intend to deprive the Iranian nation of its certain right to nuclear technology by a resolution ... parliament will reconsider the nature of its relationship with the [International Atomic Energy Agency]," Parliament Speaker Gholamali Haddadadel told state television. |
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6432255
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/23/un.iran.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/23/un.iran.ap/index.html |
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NAVFC
Joined: 10 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 1:25 pm Post subject: Re: Security Council Approves Iranian Sanctions... |
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Saturday imposing sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, culminating two months of tough negotiations aimed at pressuring Tehran to return to negotiations and clarify its nuclear ambitions.
The resolution orders all countries to ban the supply of specified materials and technology that could contribute to Iran's nuclear and missile programs. It also imposes an asset freeze on key companies and individuals in the country's nuclear and missile programs named on a U.N. list.
If Iran refuses to comply, the resolution warns Iran that the council will adopt further non-military sanctions.
Iran insists its nuclear program is aimed solely at the peaceful production of nuclear energy, but the Americans and Europeans suspect Tehran's ultimate goal is the production of nuclear weapons.
In a lengthy speech to the council after the vote, Iran's U.N. Ambassador Javad Zarif denounced the council for imposing sanctions on Iran, while doing nothing about Israel whose prime minister recently confirmed long suspicions that it is a nuclear power.
"A nation is being punished for exercising its inalienable rights" to develop nuclear energy... |
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TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran condemned the U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran's nuclear work on Saturday as an illegal measure outside the council's jurisdiction.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told state-run television the resolution "cannot affect or limit Iran's peaceful nuclear activities but will discredit the decisions of the Security Council, whose power is deteriorating."
The resolution, which the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved, imposed sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive nuclear materials and ballistic missiles in an attempt to get Tehran to halt uranium enrichment work.
Iran also accused the U.N. Security Council of pursuing a double standard in imposing sanctions on what it said was Tehran's peaceful nuclear program while ignoring Israel's nuclear arsenal.
"It is indisputable that nuclear weapons in the hands of the Israeli regime with an unparalleled record of noncompliance with Security Council resolutions ... poses a uniquely grave threat to regional and international peace and security," Iranian U.N. Ambassador Javad Zarif told the 15-nation council.
Earlier Saturday, Iran's parliamentary speaker said parliament would alter Iran's relationship with the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, if the U.N. Security Council issued sanctions against Iran.
"If they intend to deprive the Iranian nation of its certain right to nuclear technology by a resolution ... parliament will reconsider the nature of its relationship with the [International Atomic Energy Agency]," Parliament Speaker Gholamali Haddadadel told state television. |
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6432255
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/23/un.iran.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/23/un.iran.ap/index.html |
About frickin time! |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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This is obviously the result of the American propaganda machine steamrolling the peaceful nation of Iran.  |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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These sanctions are pretty tepid.
On the other hand, wider sanctions usually bring about a great deal of damage, and the wider Iranian economy already suffers from a dirth of foreign investment because of Iranian policy and the policy reciprocated by the US.
However, given the rejection of Ahmedinejad at the polls, maybe some in the UN are advocating giving Iran one last chance. A chance I have no doubt they won't take. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I hope they work as well as the ones on North Korea! |
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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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| Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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Rwanda. Bosnia. Darfur. Oil for food. General corruption. North Korea.
Yeah, I'm confident the UN will sort this one out. |
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