The Security Council on Monday adopted its third resolution imposing sanctions on Iran for its refusal to cease enriching uranium, an activity that Western nations believe is designed to build nuclear weapons.
The previous two measures gained unanimous support of the 15-member panel, but in the Monday balloting, Indonesia abstained, saying it "remained to be convinced of the efficacy of adopting additional sanctions at this juncture." Fourteen countries voted in favor.
The resolution authorizes inspections of cargo to and from Iran that is suspected of carrying prohibited equipment, tightens the monitoring of Iranian financial institutions, and extends travel bans and asset freezes against persons and companies involved in the nuclear program.
It adds 13 names to the existing list of 5 individuals and 12 companies subject to travel and asset restrictions. The new names include people with direct responsibility for building fast-spinning centrifuges that enrich uranium ore, and a brigadier general engaged in "efforts to get round the sanctions" in the two earlier resolutions.
The new measure also bans all trade and supply of so-called dual-use items - materials and technologies that can be adapted for military as well as civilian ends.
So that begs the question, if materials and technologies that can be adapted to military use but has civilian uses as well, what does that mean for the Russians who are constructing Iran's nuclear "power" plants? The article doesn't say, but I imagine that's got to come into question.
They included sketches and a video that appeared to have come from Iran's own military laboratories, and Heinonen said they showed work "not consistent with any application other than the development of a nuclear weapon."
Iran's ambassador to the agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, called the intelligence data "forged and fabricated" and denounced the new Security Council resolution Monday as "irresponsible" and "an arrow aiming at the heart" of the atomic energy agency.
If it is a "fabrication", then the video would have to have been extremely well done to fool everyone. It's just going to show that Iran does have nuclear weapons aspirations and they need to be slapped back for it.
Iran is trying to say that the sanctions are "illegal", but here's the funny part:
"Any new sanctions are not only illegitimate and illegal but backers of new sanctions resolutions should take responsibility for their illegal behavior which is against international regulations," senior nuclear official Mohammad Saeedi said.
International regulations? How about the NPT that IRAN SIGNED? That says that you aren't allowed to make nuclear weapons. Now that you've gotten your hand stuck in the cookie jar, you're trying to deflect attention away from you and your government.
Nice try...who am I kidding? That was a lamest attempt I've seen in a while!
Travis
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