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| UN votes for new sanctions on Iran over nuclear issue |
| 2010-06-09 |
| The UN Security Council has voted in favour of fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme. The council voted 12 to two, with one abstention, in favour of a fourth round of sanctions, including tighter finance curbs and an expanded arms embargo. The US has promoted the sanctions as the toughest Iran has yet faced. But Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earlier warned his country would not agree to further nuclear talks if the sanctions were imposed. The Security Council resolution was opposed by Turkey and Brazil, which had brokered a deal with Iran on uranium enrichment. Lebanon abstained. The new sanctions were passed after being watered down during negotiations with Russia and China on Tuesday. There are no crippling economic sanctions and there is no oil embargo. Those passed include prohibiting Iran from buying heavy weapons such as attack helicopters and missiles. They also toughen rules on financial transactions with Iranian banks and increase the number of Iranian individuals and companies that are targeted with asset freezes and travel bans. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 IMO, this is an actual win by the Obama foreign policy team. Its a smallish win since the sanctions were watered down. The three other UN sanction acts on Iran were done during the Bush Admin (each year beginning w 2006). It is also the 2nd win of the past four weeks. The other was in early May when the OECD admitted Israel. That was partly the work of the Obama foreign policy team and partly because of the economic reality that Israel is becoming economically more important. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2010-06-09 21:27 |