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| New sanctions could mean confrontation: Iran |
| 2010-06-03 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Fresh international sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program could lead to confrontation, foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki warned during a visit to Brussels. "There are two options," to resolve the problem, he told an audience at the European Policy Center think-tank. "The first is based on cooperation, the other is based on confrontation," he said on the second and last day of his visit to the Belgian capital. "The resolution" at the United Nations Security Council on imposing new sanctions against Iran" is a basis for confrontation," he warned. "That is not our preferred option but that's up to other parties who would like to move in that direction," Mottaki added. Increasing pressure Enrichment lies at the center of international fears about Iran's nuclear program as the process can make the core of an atom bomb in highly purified forms of over 90 percent. Last month the United States introduced a draft resolution at the U.N. to impose tough new sanctions on Iran. The draft resolution would expand an arms embargo and measures against Iran's banking sector and ban it from sensitive overseas activities like uranium mining and developing ballistic missiles, a U.S. official said. Western powers fear that Iran's atomic program is a cover for a nuclear weapons drive. Tehran denies this, saying the program is aimed at peaceful energy use, which it insists it has the right to pursue. Iran is already subject to three sets of U.N. sanctions for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, one of the crucial steps towards the production of nuclear energy for civil or military use. Mottaki stressed that Iran had no intention of giving up its plans of enriching uranium to 20 percent. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 not likely we'd be the first target - Israel is. Then it's Old Testament time |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-06-03 20:48 |
| #2 Nostradamus already called it. Iran will get the nuke, they will hit us with one, and after that...well, that's where the documentary ended. Pretty frustrating we don't have old-school leadership when we desperately need it. |
| Posted by: John Wayne Resurrected 2010-06-03 20:13 |
| #1 See also WORLD NEWS > [Top Iranian Official]IRAN TO CONTINUE URANIUM ENRICHMENT EVEN IFF FUEL DEAL WORKS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-06-03 02:58 |