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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Rejects United States Warning on Sanctions

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Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni gives a joined press conference with Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema after a meeting on post-war Lebanon on August 24. Livni has urged the international community to stop the “threat” posed by Iran, which she accused of trying to “buy time” to build a nuclear weapon.

AFP: Iran rejects US warning as nuclear deadline nears

Iran has angrily rejected a US threat to impose sanctions over its contested nuclear programme outside the United Nations as the clock ticked down to a crunch UN deadline for Tehran to suspend sensitive atomic work.

With arch-enemy Israel warning that Iran’s uranium enrichment must be stopped for the sake of “world peace”, a Thursday deadline neared for Iran to suspend the controversial nuclear activity or face possible sanctions.

US ambassador to the UN John Bolton has said that while Washington was confident of securing a UN consensus over Iran, it was prepared to act unilaterally if a resolution against Tehran was vetoed by Beijing and Moscow.

“Such statements are a blatant insult to the United Nations and the Security Council. They stem from bullying and a lack of principles,” government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters on Monday.

Bolton told the Los Angeles Times newspaper late last week that “everybody’s been on board” on the Security Council over Iran but in case Russia and China did not accept any resolution, the United States was working on a parallel diplomatic track.

“You don’t need Security Council authority to impose sanctions, just as we have,” Bolton said, referring to the raft of economic sanctions the United States imposed on Tehran in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Elham scoffed that the comments showed “such people do not deserve to be a member to this council and the organization should reconsider to save its reputation and show it is not an instrument in their hands.

“The ones who sacrifice international law for their greed, dominance and unilateralism better be worried,” he said.

The UN Security Council has given Iran an August 31 deadline to suspend all uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities and an impasse looms with Iran insisting it has no intention of abandoning such work.

More Iranian bloviations.

The United States will pursue sanctions through the United Nations or outside with its allies.

Israel has NO confidence in negotiating with Iran.

Stay tuned…..

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.


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