TEHRAN, Iran, Dec. 24, 2006
Iran Vows To Defy U.N. Sanctions
Unanimous Security Council Votes For Sanctions; Iran Says It Will Continue Uranium Enrichment
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to approve a resolution imposing sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, culminating two months of negotiations aimed at pressuring Tehran to clarify its nuclear ambitions, Dec. 23, 2006. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, M. Javad Zarif, responds angrily to the vote by the Security Council unanimously approving a resolution imposing sanctions against Iran. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he speaks in Tehran, Iran on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006. Iran on Sunday vowed to push forward with efforts to enrich uranium and to change its relations with the international nuclear watchdog after the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions designed to stop the country's disputed nuclear efforts. (AP Photo/Rouzbeh Jadidueslam)
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Ahmadinejad also downplayed the resolution, saying it would be the Security Council that regretted it, not Iran.
"This will not damage the nation of Iran, but its issuers will soon regret this superficial and nil act," he said, speaking to a group of war veterans from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war at the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
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, balked.
"The Security Council resolution was negotiated at the highest levels including a phone call between President George W. Bush and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the hours before the vote," Falk said, "and the final Resolution was gutted of many of the tougher provisions including a travel ban."
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 the country has suspended uranium enrichment and complied with other IAEA demands.
It also says sanctions will end when the board of the 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 Aug. 31 council deadline to freeze enrichment.
Earlier Sunday, Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said the resolution made his country more "decisive in realizing our nuclear aims."
"From Sunday morning, we will begin activities at Natanz — site of 3,000-centrifuge machines — and we will drive it with full speed. It will be our immediate response to the resolution," Iran's Kayhan newspaper quoted Larijani as saying.
Iran first showed its ability to enrich uranium in February, when it produced a small batch of low-enriched uranium using a first set of 164 centrifuges at its pilot complex in Natanz.
Iran has said it intends to move toward large-scale uranium enrichment involving 3,000 centrifuges by late 2006, and then expand the program to 54,000 centrifuges, which spin uranium gas into enriched material to produce nuclear fuel.
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- RandalDS said:
''As well they should! Hasn't this idiot Bush ever heard of diplomacy? This as*shole starts out with threats and then gets even more threatening when the people he's threatening don't like being threatened! Who in the hell does he think he is? No one left in the US with a brain still supports the moron Bush, so where does he get off threatening other countries? We don't back him anymore! He's a lone lunatic voice in the wilderness! If I was running Iran I'd laugh in Bush's face!
Bush has already committed mass murder in our name in Iraq. The as*shole does NOT have our permission to commit international suicide by invading Iran! Back off you son of a Bit*ch Bush our we'll back your *** of for you motherfu*cker! ''
Man, that made me laugh my a*ss off, but please a bit of restraint with the big words... And don't forget there are some moronesk followers out there that still read your comments. In order to keep some credibility... - Reply to this comment
- Isn't there photographic proof that this Ahmadinejad thingee was one of the so-called 'students' who invaded the US Embassy in Tehran? That was an overt act of war!
Is there a statute of limitations on overt acts of war?
No?
Problem solved...give `em a few thousand megatons of US nuclear technology.
OK...so that's a bit harsh, but the harsh reality is that this clown is just the mad dog to let the genie out of the bottle to the great sorrow of us all. Iran cannot be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. They say they want to develop peaceful nuclear technology, but we've seen in the past that their word is completely worthless. Apparently, lying to infidels isn't lying at all.
It's just too bad that Jimmie Carter was such a moral man%u2026a very bad attribute in a commander-in-chief, a real handicap. Had just about any other US president been in office, there would be no Iranian problem today. A president must be able to keep his scruples under strict control. About the only good thing you can say about Doubya is not only is he not burdened by scruples or moral constraints of any kind...he can%u2019t even spell those things. He%u2019s just the decider. - Reply to this comment
- Well, I gotta go.
Merry Christmas to all that celebrate the birthday!
Happy holidays to everyone else! - Reply to this comment
- Has anyone checked out the official White House Website? It's a very educational experience...
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- thdriver...
only because Shrub will never admit he scre%ed up. Heaven forbid he should accept any responsibility for being a preemptive President. - Reply to this comment
- Borealis3
Think for yourself and not what President Bush or Clinton/Kerry want you to think, It was always the oil!! Wepons of mass distruction my AS@. - Reply to this comment
- Borealis3
You are 100% correct! - Reply to this comment
- Hey, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad!
We will have two nuclear powered aircraft carrier task force right at your front door soon, better find a rock to get under, we are comming for you!! - Reply to this comment
- At some point Israel will take action to protect itself. At that point 40 million Iranians will die. Fortunatley the Iranian People arn't stupid and may yet stop their president from killing them all.
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- Well we have nuclear plants in Finland, why don't you come bomb us? Thank God we don't have oil.
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- Iran is far to extreem. While our nuclear program is dormant, Irans is in full stride.
They have every right to domestic power, but if they don't let us verify a peacefull program is all that exists. I support bombing Iran's nuclear program back to the 11th century to match they're social and political culture. Iran with nuclear weapons is absolutely unaccepable. - Reply to this comment
- Let's round up all the Iranians in the USA and send them all back to their mother country. They have mooched on the USA for too long. Long live America.
P.S. Let's sent that bozo in Iran a special Christian gift......You know what I mean CBS.......sort of nuclear related. - Reply to this comment
- 'No proof' of Iran nuclear arms:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6167304.stm
Where's Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? - Reply to this comment
- emtak1--- Your fuels look good 10 to 15 years from now, besides, "BIG" oil companys won't let that happen anytime soon.
Our military does not run on the stuff, anything from non nuclear flattops to humvees and tanks all need the "black gold", if you think that stuff you mention is ready now, try getting by next month without oil. I am talking about anything made with oil, to anything harvested or delivered with diesel fuel or gas.
President Bush had the foresight to get a foothold in the Middle East and no one, Democrat or Republican is going to give it back, oh sure, to get in office they will tell you whatever you want to believe. "Wake up" and think for yourself.
Think about it, we have had 50,000 troops in S. Korea since 1953, for what? Now that oil has become almost as precious as water, we are going to pull out of Iraq? "Ain't" gonna happen. - Reply to this comment
- He still refers Americans as infidels.
DEATH TO IRAN
DEATH TO IRAN
DEATH TO IRAN
DEATH TO IRAN
DEATH TO IRAN - Reply to this comment
- Sanctions. If everyone enforced these sanctions the simple hearing the term should be enough for the accused to rethink their stance. However, sanctions are what some may apply aand other say they will but either don't ot water them down. Iran is not the only country to know this. This is not an American problem, it is a UN weakness to put teeth into what has been resolved. Too many countries are afraid of offending others. Like parents today being afraid of offending their kids, and look at our youngsters now...More violence than ever before. No wonder the world is in the crisis it is today. A good spanking is what's needed.
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- Sanctions, thats a good idea .Lets give them more time to develop the bomb with sanctions .listen up U.N. When it comes to dealing with ANY country re: North Korea or Iran in this case , regarding world issues .The country having buissness directly related to the issue should not have a vote on sanction wording or the outcome of the vote .
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- Can't see why those Iranians are so belligerent towards the US. All we did was overthrow their democratically elected leader and install a brutal puppet dictator. Besides look at that beacon of democracy we've created next door, we just wanna do the same for them.
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- What difference does it make what China and Russia think? I'm not Chinese and I'm not a Russian thank God. I don't put up with my president poisoning citizens with radiation or one who executes citzens and then charges the family for the bullet.
Americans need to think for themselves. - Reply to this comment
- Funny thing about the oil is, when It comes down to it, I doubt we need it as bad as we thing we do. There are multiple alternative energy platforms and processes that are quickly evolving. And the full force of American ingenuity has not even come close to being brought bear on them: Wind Power, Geothermal home heating, advances in solar power, Ethanol, polydethermalization, to mention a handul. And I'm not particularly up on the subject.
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