[Al Arabiya Latest] U.N. nuclear watchdog governors voted on Friday to rebuke Iran for building a uranium enrichment plant in secret but Tehran dismissed the move as "intimidation" which would poison its negotiations with world powers.
The resolution was the first by the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) against Iran in almost four years, and a sign of growing alarm over Tehran's failure to dispel fears it has clandestine plans to build nuclear bombs.
It passed by a 25-3 margin with six abstentions, smoothed by rare backing from Russia and China, which have blocked global attempts to isolate Iran, a trade partner for both, in the past.
Iran's foreign ministry dismissed as "theatrical and useless" the resolution, state news agency IRNA reported.
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#1 Iran's foreign ministry dismissed as "theatrical and useless" the resolution
There's something we can agree on.
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#2 Double Secret Probation?
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#3 Is there anything more useless than a UN resolution?
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