security Council approves Iran sanctions
Sat Dec 23, 12:39 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS - The
U.N. Security Council unanimously agreed Saturday to impose sanctions against
Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, culminating two months of negotiations to curb a nuclear program the United States claims is aimed at building weapons.
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 nonmilitary sanctions.
Until the last moments before the vote, it was not clear whether all 15 Security Council members would support the resolution.
Russia and China, which both have strong commercial ties to Tehran, have pressed for a step-by-step approach to sanctions, and Qatar has supported Iran's peaceful use of nuclear energy. By contrast, the United States has pushed for very tough sanctions, with Britain and France taking a slightly softer view.
Key European nations made late changes that brought Moscow and Beijing on board, including earlier this week dropping a ban on travel for key figures in Iran's nuclear and missile programs.
Qatar's U.N. Ambassador Nassir Al-Nassir, the only Arab member of the council and its current president, was the last to make his country's intentions known, telling members just before the vote that Qatar would vote yes "because we are concerned about the safety of Iranian nuclear facilities."
On Saturday, Russian President
Vladimir Putin called
President Bush to discuss the Iran vote, agreeing on the need to move forward with a resolution, said Blain Rethmeier, a spokesman for Bush. The two leaders "stressed the importance of maintaining a unified position on Iran's nuclear program," Rethmeier said.
Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Moscow agreed to sanctions because it wanted Iran "to lift remaining concerns over its nuclear program."
He stressed that the goal must be to resume talks. If Iran suspends enrichment and reprocessing, the resolution calls for a suspension of sanctions "which would pave the way for a negotiated solution," Churkin said.
Acting U.S. Ambassador Alejandro Wolff said he hopes the sanctions "will convince Iran that the best way to ensure security it to abandon" nuclear enrichment.
Iran insists its nuclear program is intended to produce energy, but the Americans and Europeans suspect its ultimate goal is the production of weapons.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated Tuesday that Security Council sanctions would not stop Iran from pursuing uranium enrichment, a technology that can be used to produce nuclear fuel for civilian purposes or fuel for a nuclear bomb.
The resolution authorizes action under Article 41 of Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter. It allows the Security Council to impose nonmilitary sanctions such as severing diplomatic and economic relations, transportation and communications links.
If Iran fails to comply, the draft says the council will adopt "further appropriate measures" under Article 41.
The resolution calls on all states "to exercise vigilance" regarding the entry or transit through their territory of those on a U.N. list that names 12 top Iranians involved in the country's nuclear and missile programs. It asks the 191 other U.N. member states to notify a Security Council committee that will be created to monitor sanctions when those Iranians show up in their country.
The resolution also says the council will review Iran's actions in light of a report from the head of the
International Atomic Energy Agency, requested within 60 days, on whether Iran has suspended uranium enrichment and complied with other IAEA demands.
If the IAEA â the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog â verifies that Iran has suspended enrichment and reprocessing, the resolution says the sanctions will be suspended to allow for negotiations. It says sanctions will end as soon as the IAEA board confirms that Iran has complied with all its obligations.
Before the final text was circulated, Churkin pressed for amendments to ensure that Moscow can conduct legitimate nuclear activities in Iran â a point Churkin stressed Saturday.
Russia is building Iran's first atomic power plant at Bushehr, which is expected to go on line in late 2007. A reference to Bushehr in the original draft was removed earlier â as Russia demanded.
The six key parties trying to curb Iran's nuclear program â Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and the United States â offered Tehran a package of economic incentives and political rewards in June if it agreed to consider a long-term moratorium on enrichment and committed itself to a freeze on uranium enrichment before talks on its nuclear program.
That package remains an option, but with Iran refusing to comply with an Aug. 31 council deadline to stop enrichment, Britain and France circulated a draft sanctions resolution in late October, which has been revised several times since then.
To meet concerns of Russia and China that the original resolution was too broad, it was changed to specify in greater detail exactly what materials and technology would be prohibited from being supplied to Iran and to name those individuals and companies that would be affected.
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Don't take life seriously... Its not permanent.
Edited: Sat December 23, 2006 at 7:04 PM by MrBillPro
The Iranian leader described the resolution as 'nothing more than a piece of paper'. He's got that right!
Well the way the UN stands behind its resolutions. It is just paper and a bunch of talk.
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Only 13 more to go!
By then Isreal will be gone... Heck, if they do destroy Isreal, won't that be the end of problems in the Middle East, and the asshats will love us again?
If I were a Liberal Peacenut, I'd believe that...
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Lazy bum who lives off his wife.
01 BMW 530i Sport, 92 Porsche 968, 85 F150, 72 911, 08 GM SUV, 01' Ford Lightnin'
So I'm curious... Why should Iran not have nuclear weapons?
The Americans couldn't wait to toast japan as soon as they got theirs, and are still the only country to use theirs in anger unless you count the russians feeding Polonium to their journalists... Hardly a good example of restraint
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Never knock on deaths door... Ring the doorbell and run away, death really hates that!
What I believe is you still don't have an answer for the statement we will kill all that do not follow Allah. When this policy is put into place and it is now what are we supposed to do Karl. Sit in a row so they can kill us as fast as they can? Talk to them just before the sword slices our neck. Your policy sucks and Karl says lets talk about it. See not one of you that likes to bash the USA can tell me what I'm supposed to do when Allah is killing us. So while I don't want to hurt anyone the choice is going to be my family or theirs. The liberals of this country do not see this as I do! I do believe more of our citizens will be killed with their approach. It has been brought up many times how many individuals were killed by the Christens many years ago. Like that gives anyone a reason to continue to kill today. If you say the Muslims have a right to kill today because of the Christens past. Well I say the Romans murdered many Christens many years ago! So using you thought process the Christens have the right to kill just as you claim the Muslims do now. Same can be said for Israel. You pro Muslim believers seem to think its fine for the Muslims to kill! Yet no one is allowed to fight back or they our the bad guys.
I will say I think I have a different view of the muslim countries these days. While I used to think they had the smarts to see what freedom is and would want it! I know feel they are really only a bunch of savages and could care less for anything other then their own personal power and god. So they will continue to kill their own people regardless of how many of their own people are murdered in the process. If these countries did not have oil really where would they be? Most would still be living in a mud hut if they were lucky!
It is not just America that would prefer countries not gaining the ability to produce a nuclear weapon. Anyone thinking Iran needs nuclear power with all the oil they have is just drinking their kool-aid.
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Mr Bill,
My point is that you Christians will fight and die following the scriptures in the Bible and yet the Bible has not been proven to be genuine, the word of your god or even to have been a remotely accurate representation of the life and times of the man called Jesus. It relies purely on your faith to cement it together, and yet your own armd forces go to Iraq with high tech kit to sniff out all of these WMD and you guys wont believe eye witness accounts backed up with footage and reasonable proof. I'm curious whare it is written that JCs birthday is on 25 December or that he died at easter... The Bible is as far as I am concerned a total work of fiction, I do believe in heaven and hell though but believe that they are parts of your consience, everyone has their own personal heaven and hell based on what they done that they know to have been right and wrong
I would also add that I doubt the origins of the Koran and every other holy book, I see them as means of controlling the population and a means of rallying the troops in time of war.
Tim, I think that you would agree with me if I was to say that you Yanks are a pretty disfunctional bunch most of the time, but wave the stars and stripes and tell the prolls that it is under threat and you guys stand in line ready to kill for no real reason at all, well it seems that some enterprising raghead has figured out a common denominator to make muslims do the same. Everyone loves a holy war because they are fighting and killing and raping in the name of their god so they get away with all the things that they have been told that they will burn in the fires of hell for and still get to go to heaven for it because it is in the name of their god.. A holy war is a war with no sin. Unfortunately the USs habit of throwing its weight around for no good reason has played right in to the hands of these people as they have shown their muslim brothers the face of the evil that they must unite to defeat. So now you guys are anti Muslim 100% and they are anti Western 100% and there is no room for middle ground. You guys have the heavy artillery and high tech stuff, they have simple stuff but unshakable beliefs and a willingness to die for their god, they are light and can sneak around unseen in your own back yard and behind your battle lines.... I think that this is gonna be messy
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Never knock on deaths door... Ring the doorbell and run away, death really hates that!
Iranian Legislature chanted, "Death to America, Death to America", only yesterday... Do you hear the Japanese Gov'ment, or any other Nation w/ Nuclear weapons chant the same Threat in their halls of Gov'ment?
Be patient Karl, your Muslim buddies sure are, even your nieghbors in your own back yard... Just wait till Push comes to Shove... It happened in WW2, and it will happen again...
Have you kissed a Muslim today?
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Lazy bum who lives off his wife.
01 BMW 530i Sport, 92 Porsche 968, 85 F150, 72 911, 08 GM SUV, 01' Ford Lightnin'
Nice rant Karl but you fail to answer my question again.
Japan does not have a nuclear weapon or program.
Merry Christmas
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You're right TRB, Japan dosen't have one yet... and it wouldn't really bother me if they did... The Japanese want to live, and prosper in this world, unlike the fanatic Muslim that considers his own Death a "Victory". I wish we would just go ahead and accomadate them... Even the young girls want to die and become one of the 72 virgins... Strange folks Karl likes to defend.
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Lazy bum who lives off his wife.
01 BMW 530i Sport, 92 Porsche 968, 85 F150, 72 911, 08 GM SUV, 01' Ford Lightnin'
That is one of the reasons many countries do not want Iran or others to have a nuclear weapon. Countries will start trying to get them left and right if their neighbors get one. The fewer that have one the less chance one will ever be used again!
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Mr Bill, so if a guy told the world that he was the son of god, what proof would you need that he was bearing in mind that god doesn't like doubters but prefers blind faith? Who wrote the Bible bearing in mind that much of it was subject to the spoken word and hense the interpretation of the person who has had to remember it, and then when writen open to errors in hand written copying, what if all holy books originated at the same event in history and each have mutated, influenced by personal and political views... does that make Christians the same as Muslims each believing that they are doing the word of god?
Personally, floating around on clouds playing a harp is my idea of hell and the other place does have a good heating system, guess that there will be plenty of work for me to do fixing air con systems.... Ha! They might even have R12 down there
Tim, I thought that you wanted to enforce freedom on people, are the Iranians not free to chant whatever they like? Is that not called freedom? why are they not free to build their own Nuke or does American freedom only apply to people who agree with America? What do you do with those who dont agree with America? Nuke them? if this is so then perhaps Iran has a point in making a Nuke, perhaps they feel that the US is a bit to free and easy with its fists. Remember, that you guys paid Saddam to wipe them out once and then you stuck a knife into the back of your own creation when he stepped out of line... Just a cheery thought
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Never knock on deaths door... Ring the doorbell and run away, death really hates that!
Karl, again you fail to answer the simple question. They state they will kill all that do not follow Allah! What is your plan to stop them from acting on their statements?
To me the nuclear issue is a tough one one. I do agree that we do not have the right to tell anyone if they can or cannot have one. Then again we have the right to defend our country. With the statements like the one above we have the right to stop them from ever getting one in my opinion. I also again point out this is not just a USA issue! Many countries have stated they do not want Iran or others to obtain nuclear weapons. So let's remember that and when you are bashing the USA over this and make sure you include all the players!
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Hmmm..So if I was to turn water in to wine using a neat slight of hand and a few mirrors then I too could become the son of god? Well I do find myself talking to tax men quite a lot.....perhaps more than is comfortable for me.
I'm afraid that I'm with Darwin when it comes to the creation of man, we're not the chosen ones, just the dominant species who devours and destroys all in our path for the sake of greed.. We too will die out when our effluent poisons us, kinda like brewers yeast diying when the alcohol content becomes too strong for the yeast to live when brewing wine or beer. So by not using our intelegence to act as custodians of this planet, by dominating and destroying the systems that clean up after us and give us the air that we breathe would in my eyes be seen as a far greater sin than any other that I can think of.
If you were to push me in to a corner and stick a gun to my head, then I would say that I do believe in a god, but not the bearded white anglo saxon guy that most westerners follow or some all wise middle eastern geezer either and neither do i believe that god is consious of us but is the material from which we are all made, Mother Earth, The Solar System, The Universe perhaps? I would suggest that the ancient Druids and Witches were far closer to God than Pope Herrman the first.
Tim there are plenty of Westerners who are calling for the genocide of Muslims too so it would be logical for them to counter such posturing with their own cries of hate...Aint religon a wonderfull thing? So much peace and love between the followers of two such benevelant Gods
My god is bigger than your God, My God is gonna kick your Gods arse
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Never knock on deaths door... Ring the doorbell and run away, death really hates that!
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