Draft U.N. Resolution on Iran Calls for Sanctions

[Robbien]

Source: Washington Post

A draft United Nations resolution on Iran circulating among the world's major powers calls for new sanctions against the elite Quds Force and a top Iranian bank as well as "restraint" and "vigilance" on the supply, sale or transfer of all arms to Iran, according to sources familiar with the proposal.

The draft, to be discussed tomorrow by political experts from the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. . . It is highly unusual for the world body to sanction the military wing of a member state, officials say. The proposed measure would freeze any of its assets abroad, make business dealings with it illegal, and isolate it financially, they add.

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The proposal indicates that there is still an appetite for significant new punitive measures against Iran even after the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate last week concluded that Tehran had halted its nuclear weapons program four years ago, according to officials from several countries.

"The international community is not being dissuaded by the NIE and is not going to be led down a cul-de-sac because of the noise of the moment. It's still focused on one salient fact. Iran can't run about defying the international community," said a European diplomat.

A senior official from another European country said the NIE "might complicate things . . . but we do not intend to lessen the pressure."

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121000733.html?hpid=topnews

[Tempest]

1. Good luck getting China or Russia to agree to further sanctions

China has already said the recently agreed upon sanctions should be reviewed in light of the NIE report.

[ideagarden]

2. the washington post is not to be trusted

They have been planting neocon articles in there for recently. This seems to be one of them.

"The resolution is not based on whether Iran has an active nuclear weapons program -- an issue about which the five veto-wielding countries on the Security Council have disagreed"

There were also too many quotes by Rice and an unnamed European diplomat. The article sounds deceitful.

[ohio2007]

3. better not trust the Euro MSM either

The Eu has been wanting to sanction Iran for some time and they are pissed that the US has backed down on the nuclear weapon issue against Iran;

British spy chiefs have grave doubts that Iran has mothballed its nuclear weapons programme, as a US intelligence report claimed last week, and believe the CIA has been hoodwinked by Teheran.
The timing of the CIA report has also provoked fury in the British Government, where officials believe it has undermined efforts to impose tough new sanctions on Iran and made an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities more likely.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/09/wiran109.xml


If there is to be real progress in Iraq, there has to be movement by the US on these very same Iranian interest issues......

Ball is in the mullahs court now.

[LynnTheDem]

4. Sure, sanction Iran, who are in fact doing nothing illegal.

That'll teach em!

:eyes:

[bemildred]

5. More hopeful horseshit from WaPo. nt

[humbled_opinion]

6. OK so our Intel Experts said the country is not doing anything wrong

and the UN still seeks sanctions... Wow who is watching the watchers of the world.

[Clanfear]

8. That is going a little far.

They did not say they weren't doing anything wrong. And the IAEA has said they are not convinced of the conclusions reached in the NIE.

[humbled_opinion]

9. but they did say that they ended their..

Nuke Weps Program in 2003. That means that they had one but ended it.... So lets be victorious the sanctions worked Iran is not intent on making Nukes everybody... So now can they get their peaceful reactor?

[HuffleClaw]

7. yeah, good luck with that

what a pack of lies. both russia and china have already quietly said they wouldn't support such a resolution.