UN Santa Claus gives Iran Resolution 1737
With Christmas approaching, the UN Security Council gave Iran a lump of coal in the form of Resolution 1737, which is meant to deprive the country of civilian nuclear technology.
All Iranians are familiar with the true face of this Santa Claus, but it was expected that he would wait until after the Christmas holidays to deliver the bad news.
For the past 28 years, this Santa Claus, the ambassador of peace and friendship, has been sending evil presents to the Iranian nation through Uncle Sam and the UN Security Council.
Resolution 1737 was adopted at a time when Iranian children, and especially Iranian Christian children, were getting ready for Christmas celebrations, saddening their happy faces.
--By unanimous vote of the Security Council, sanctions were imposed on Iran in response to the Islamic republic's refusal to halt work on weapons-grade nuclear fuel.
The UN Security Council yesterday decided for the first ever UN sanctions on Iran, targeting its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes in response to its refusal to halt sensitive nuclear fuel work. Iran immediately rejected the resolution, produced after two months of tough negotiation in the international community.
The resolution - adopted unanimously - orders all countries to stop supplying Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear and missile programs. It also freezes Iranian assets of 10 key companies and 12 individuals related to those programs.
If Iran refuses to comply, the council warned it would adopt further nonmilitary sanctions, but the resolution emphasized the importance of diplomacy in seeking guarantees "that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes."
Mean while, Malaysia on Sunday expressed dissatisfaction over the UN Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran to coerce it halt its nuclear program.
In a statement, Malaysian Foreign Minister Hamid Albar said the resolution was "only a need to take punitive measures against Tehran".
He expressed confidence that, in spite of the sanctions, the door remained open for negotiations in search for a long peaceful settlement for the Iranian nuclear program.
However, Iran vowed Sunday to continue to develop its nuclear program and to reconsider its relations with the international nuclear monitoring agency, taking a defiant stance in response to the Security Council's approval on Saturday of sanctions intended to curb the program.
Iran insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, and that as a member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty it has the legal right to enrich uranium to produce its own reactor fuel. The United States says Iran, a major oil exporter, has no need for a peaceful nuclear program and is using it as a cover for an effort to produce nuclear weapons.
In statements released by the Iranian news agency IRNA, the foreign ministry said that Iran was starting work on a 3,000-centrifuge site today and intends to complete it. Iran, which already had one cascade of 164 centrifuges in operation, has said repeatedly that it plans to increase the number of centrifuges in operation to 3,000 by the end of this year.
"This measure is Iran's response to Resolution 1737 of the U.N. Security Council," a Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, told reporters during the ministry's weekly news conference. He added that Iran was not now obligated to continue cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The Security Council's approval of the sanctions on Saturday capped months of negotiations over how severe and sweeping the restrictions on Iran should be. The resolution, prepared by Germany and the Security Council's five permanent members - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - bans Iran from importing or exporting materials and technology used in uranium enrichment, reprocessing and ballistic missiles.
Today, IRNA also reported that a number of parliament members called for the suspension of the I.A.E.A.'s inspection of Iranian nuclear sites following the approval of the resolution by the United Nations Security Council.
But a member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Heshmatollah Falahat-Pisheh, was quoted by the agency as saying that there was no need to withdraw from the nuclear treaty.
The council's resolution, which mandates compliance but restricts punishment to nonmilitary measures, has been in the works since Iran flouted the Security Council's call for a "full and sustained suspension" of nuclear activities by Aug. 31. It is weaker than proposals in earlier drafts, which started circulating in October, after repeated changes intended to placate Russia, which has strong economic ties with Iran. Throughout the process, Russia's objections were often seconded by China.
In June, the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany offered Iran a package of economic and political incentives to halt its nuclear program. The offer was rejected, setting the stage for the Aug. 31 deadline and, ultimately, the sanctions resolution.
Iranian officials have previously said that Tehran was willing to resolve its nuclear issue through negotiations. But in October, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, said Europeans "should pay the price" if they choose a different path, the Iranian news agency ISNA reported.
Uranium enrichment is the first step in making fuel that can be used for nuclear power plants, or for nuclear weapons.
How many times should Iran say no for the West to believe it? No, Iran won’t halt its nuclear program. Why would it? Pakistan and North Korea examples show that nuclear proliferation pays handsomely: the West courts illegal nuclear states. Nuclear Iran would receive more aid and political support than offered now. Suffering from sanctions? You don’t really believe that, do you? America, the world’s largest economy, sanctioned Iran for decades – with no result whatsoever.
The current UN sanctions do not address Russian-built Bushehr reactor. Light-water reactors are thought peaceful because they are inconvenient for production of energy and plutonium simultaneously. Analysts assume that any reasonable country would choose energy over plutonium. In regard to Iran, that view is nonsensical. Iran could stop the reactor every four months to extract plutonium-239 before the 240 isotope poisons it. Never mind that many people would stay without electrical power for about a week.
Iran could also refuse to send used rods back to Russia, and reprocess them into plutonium instead. If Russia stops shipments of nuclear fuel, Iran could buy it from China or enrich in Natanz from uranium mined in Yazd province.
Bushehr reactor is removed from the city and could be safely bombed. Iraq – thank you, Saddam – destroyed the previous two reactors during the war with Iran.
The original draft of the sanctions called for stopping the work at Bushehr – too late, anyway – but that provision was dropped to appease Russia, hungry for Iranian cash. Now, the UN crowd would proudly trumpet the insipid sanctions.
The Iranian defiance of the UN sanctions is encouraging. Disrespectful rhetoric, formal refusal to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Association, and launching the Natanz uranium enrichment site at the full capacity of 3,000 centrifuges could offend the powers. The important part is whether Iran cancels economic cooperation with Russia because its nominal approval of the sanctions, or rewards Russia for emasculating the sanctions. America, the only military superpower, surprisingly looks back at its defeated rival for approval.
Ahmadinejad: UNSC Will Regret Its “Superficial Act”
TEHRAN - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said those who voted for a UN nuclear resolution against Iran would soon regret their “superficial act”.
“This resolution will not harm Iran and those who backed it will soon regret their superficial act,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech to a group of war veterans from at the former US Embassy in Tehran.
"It is a piece of torn paper by which they aim to scare Iranians,” he said. The president added, "You have to accept that Iran has the technology of producing nuclear fuel. And it will celebrate it in coming anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution in February. You, resorting to these sorts of activities, cannot achieve anything except dissolving your reputation."
"Give up this Muppet game. You cannot send secret friendly messages to us and at the same time show your teeth and claws. End this dual game," Ahmadinejad said.
"I am sorry for you who lost the opportunity for friendship with the nation of Iran. You yourself know that you cannot damage the nation of Iran an iota," he said.
On Saturday, the Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, increasing international pressure on the government to prove that it is not trying to make nuclear weapons.
The UN Security Council resolution -- the result of two months of tough negotiation -- orders all countries to stop supplying Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear and missile programs. It also freezes the Iranian assets of 10 key companies and 12 individuals related to those programs.
If Iran refuses to comply, the council warned it would adopt further nonmilitary sanctions, but the resolution emphasized the importance of diplomacy in seeking guarantees "that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes."
Iran insists its nuclear program is intended to produce energy, but the US and European nations suspect its ultimate goal is the production of weapons.
The United States has said it hopes the resolution will clear the way for tougher measures by individual countries, particularly Russia.
The Bush administration had pushed for tougher penalties. But Russia and China, which both have strong commercial ties to Tehran, and Qatar, across the Persian Gulf from Iran, balked.
To get their votes, the resolution dropped a ban on international travel by Iranian officials involved in nuclear and missile development and specified the banned items and technologies.
It says the council will review Iran's actions in light of a report from the head of the IAEA, requested within 60 days, on whether Iran has suspended uranium enrichment and complied with other IAEA demands.
It also says sanctions will end when the board of IAEA confirms that Iran has complied with all its obligations.
The six countries trying to get Iran to curb its nuclear program -- Britain, France, Germany Russia, China and the United States -- offered Tehran a package of economic and political incentives if it agreed to suspend uranium enrichment. But Iran refused and rejected an August 31 council deadline to freeze enrichment.
--IRAN NEWS POLITICAL DESK
So the UN Security Council has agreed on Sanctions for Iran. The sanctions call for banning all shipments of specified material to Iran that could contribute to it's developing Nuclear program. Let the under the table deals begin. Russia may have overtly agreed to this but I don't believe for one minute that they'll live up to it.
Iran, sounding like true Democrats immediately declared the action invalid and illegal. Isn't it funny how any restraints placed on Israel or the United States are valid and legal but anything imposed on an Islamic despot is deemed illegal? None of this matters, Just as most of the recent resolutions have amounted to nothing, so will this. Saddam avoided being held accountable for resolution violations. Somalia and Sudan are presently violating UN resolutions. Why should this one be any different.
This is nothing more than a "feel good" attempt by the UN. Mainly, make themselves feel good. "Look, we put it on paper. What else do you want us to do?"
Be prepared for a Nuclear Iran. Then the UN will be in a tizzy and still do nothing. They can't believe that somebody would ignore anything they ask for.
Once again, US out of the UN and UN out of the US. Quite wasting taxpayers' money and this worthless, inept, ineffective bureaucratic heap of dung.
Anyone that believes that the UN can accomplish anything deserves the fate it will get.
Mid East Iran UN sanctions America nuclear
All Iranians are familiar with the true face of this Santa Claus, but it was expected that he would wait until after the Christmas holidays to deliver the bad news.
For the past 28 years, this Santa Claus, the ambassador of peace and friendship, has been sending evil presents to the Iranian nation through Uncle Sam and the UN Security Council.
Resolution 1737 was adopted at a time when Iranian children, and especially Iranian Christian children, were getting ready for Christmas celebrations, saddening their happy faces.
--By unanimous vote of the Security Council, sanctions were imposed on Iran in response to the Islamic republic's refusal to halt work on weapons-grade nuclear fuel.
The UN Security Council yesterday decided for the first ever UN sanctions on Iran, targeting its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes in response to its refusal to halt sensitive nuclear fuel work. Iran immediately rejected the resolution, produced after two months of tough negotiation in the international community.
The resolution - adopted unanimously - orders all countries to stop supplying Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear and missile programs. It also freezes Iranian assets of 10 key companies and 12 individuals related to those programs.
If Iran refuses to comply, the council warned it would adopt further nonmilitary sanctions, but the resolution emphasized the importance of diplomacy in seeking guarantees "that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes."
Mean while, Malaysia on Sunday expressed dissatisfaction over the UN Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran to coerce it halt its nuclear program.
In a statement, Malaysian Foreign Minister Hamid Albar said the resolution was "only a need to take punitive measures against Tehran".
He expressed confidence that, in spite of the sanctions, the door remained open for negotiations in search for a long peaceful settlement for the Iranian nuclear program.
However, Iran vowed Sunday to continue to develop its nuclear program and to reconsider its relations with the international nuclear monitoring agency, taking a defiant stance in response to the Security Council's approval on Saturday of sanctions intended to curb the program.
Iran insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, and that as a member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty it has the legal right to enrich uranium to produce its own reactor fuel. The United States says Iran, a major oil exporter, has no need for a peaceful nuclear program and is using it as a cover for an effort to produce nuclear weapons.
In statements released by the Iranian news agency IRNA, the foreign ministry said that Iran was starting work on a 3,000-centrifuge site today and intends to complete it. Iran, which already had one cascade of 164 centrifuges in operation, has said repeatedly that it plans to increase the number of centrifuges in operation to 3,000 by the end of this year.
"This measure is Iran's response to Resolution 1737 of the U.N. Security Council," a Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, told reporters during the ministry's weekly news conference. He added that Iran was not now obligated to continue cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The Security Council's approval of the sanctions on Saturday capped months of negotiations over how severe and sweeping the restrictions on Iran should be. The resolution, prepared by Germany and the Security Council's five permanent members - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - bans Iran from importing or exporting materials and technology used in uranium enrichment, reprocessing and ballistic missiles.
Today, IRNA also reported that a number of parliament members called for the suspension of the I.A.E.A.'s inspection of Iranian nuclear sites following the approval of the resolution by the United Nations Security Council.
But a member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Heshmatollah Falahat-Pisheh, was quoted by the agency as saying that there was no need to withdraw from the nuclear treaty.
The council's resolution, which mandates compliance but restricts punishment to nonmilitary measures, has been in the works since Iran flouted the Security Council's call for a "full and sustained suspension" of nuclear activities by Aug. 31. It is weaker than proposals in earlier drafts, which started circulating in October, after repeated changes intended to placate Russia, which has strong economic ties with Iran. Throughout the process, Russia's objections were often seconded by China.
In June, the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany offered Iran a package of economic and political incentives to halt its nuclear program. The offer was rejected, setting the stage for the Aug. 31 deadline and, ultimately, the sanctions resolution.
Iranian officials have previously said that Tehran was willing to resolve its nuclear issue through negotiations. But in October, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, said Europeans "should pay the price" if they choose a different path, the Iranian news agency ISNA reported.
Uranium enrichment is the first step in making fuel that can be used for nuclear power plants, or for nuclear weapons.
How many times should Iran say no for the West to believe it? No, Iran won’t halt its nuclear program. Why would it? Pakistan and North Korea examples show that nuclear proliferation pays handsomely: the West courts illegal nuclear states. Nuclear Iran would receive more aid and political support than offered now. Suffering from sanctions? You don’t really believe that, do you? America, the world’s largest economy, sanctioned Iran for decades – with no result whatsoever.
The current UN sanctions do not address Russian-built Bushehr reactor. Light-water reactors are thought peaceful because they are inconvenient for production of energy and plutonium simultaneously. Analysts assume that any reasonable country would choose energy over plutonium. In regard to Iran, that view is nonsensical. Iran could stop the reactor every four months to extract plutonium-239 before the 240 isotope poisons it. Never mind that many people would stay without electrical power for about a week.
Iran could also refuse to send used rods back to Russia, and reprocess them into plutonium instead. If Russia stops shipments of nuclear fuel, Iran could buy it from China or enrich in Natanz from uranium mined in Yazd province.
Bushehr reactor is removed from the city and could be safely bombed. Iraq – thank you, Saddam – destroyed the previous two reactors during the war with Iran.
The original draft of the sanctions called for stopping the work at Bushehr – too late, anyway – but that provision was dropped to appease Russia, hungry for Iranian cash. Now, the UN crowd would proudly trumpet the insipid sanctions.
The Iranian defiance of the UN sanctions is encouraging. Disrespectful rhetoric, formal refusal to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Association, and launching the Natanz uranium enrichment site at the full capacity of 3,000 centrifuges could offend the powers. The important part is whether Iran cancels economic cooperation with Russia because its nominal approval of the sanctions, or rewards Russia for emasculating the sanctions. America, the only military superpower, surprisingly looks back at its defeated rival for approval.
Ahmadinejad: UNSC Will Regret Its “Superficial Act”
TEHRAN - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said those who voted for a UN nuclear resolution against Iran would soon regret their “superficial act”.
“This resolution will not harm Iran and those who backed it will soon regret their superficial act,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech to a group of war veterans from at the former US Embassy in Tehran.
"It is a piece of torn paper by which they aim to scare Iranians,” he said. The president added, "You have to accept that Iran has the technology of producing nuclear fuel. And it will celebrate it in coming anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution in February. You, resorting to these sorts of activities, cannot achieve anything except dissolving your reputation."
"Give up this Muppet game. You cannot send secret friendly messages to us and at the same time show your teeth and claws. End this dual game," Ahmadinejad said.
"I am sorry for you who lost the opportunity for friendship with the nation of Iran. You yourself know that you cannot damage the nation of Iran an iota," he said.
On Saturday, the Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, increasing international pressure on the government to prove that it is not trying to make nuclear weapons.
The UN Security Council resolution -- the result of two months of tough negotiation -- orders all countries to stop supplying Iran with materials and technology that could contribute to its nuclear and missile programs. It also freezes the Iranian assets of 10 key companies and 12 individuals related to those programs.
If Iran refuses to comply, the council warned it would adopt further nonmilitary sanctions, but the resolution emphasized the importance of diplomacy in seeking guarantees "that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes."
Iran insists its nuclear program is intended to produce energy, but the US and European nations suspect its ultimate goal is the production of weapons.
The United States has said it hopes the resolution will clear the way for tougher measures by individual countries, particularly Russia.
The Bush administration had pushed for tougher penalties. But Russia and China, which both have strong commercial ties to Tehran, and Qatar, across the Persian Gulf from Iran, balked.
To get their votes, the resolution dropped a ban on international travel by Iranian officials involved in nuclear and missile development and specified the banned items and technologies.
It says the council will review Iran's actions in light of a report from the head of the IAEA, requested within 60 days, on whether Iran has suspended uranium enrichment and complied with other IAEA demands.
It also says sanctions will end when the board of IAEA confirms that Iran has complied with all its obligations.
The six countries trying to get Iran to curb its nuclear program -- Britain, France, Germany Russia, China and the United States -- offered Tehran a package of economic and political incentives if it agreed to suspend uranium enrichment. But Iran refused and rejected an August 31 council deadline to freeze enrichment.
--IRAN NEWS POLITICAL DESK
So the UN Security Council has agreed on Sanctions for Iran. The sanctions call for banning all shipments of specified material to Iran that could contribute to it's developing Nuclear program. Let the under the table deals begin. Russia may have overtly agreed to this but I don't believe for one minute that they'll live up to it.
Iran, sounding like true Democrats immediately declared the action invalid and illegal. Isn't it funny how any restraints placed on Israel or the United States are valid and legal but anything imposed on an Islamic despot is deemed illegal? None of this matters, Just as most of the recent resolutions have amounted to nothing, so will this. Saddam avoided being held accountable for resolution violations. Somalia and Sudan are presently violating UN resolutions. Why should this one be any different.
This is nothing more than a "feel good" attempt by the UN. Mainly, make themselves feel good. "Look, we put it on paper. What else do you want us to do?"
Be prepared for a Nuclear Iran. Then the UN will be in a tizzy and still do nothing. They can't believe that somebody would ignore anything they ask for.
Once again, US out of the UN and UN out of the US. Quite wasting taxpayers' money and this worthless, inept, ineffective bureaucratic heap of dung.
Anyone that believes that the UN can accomplish anything deserves the fate it will get.
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