In a 25-3 vote, the P5+1 (the permanent five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) succeeded in getting their draft resolution condemning Iran’s civilian nuclear program passed through the IAEA. Every major nation supported the resolution, with Venezuela, Malaysia and Cuba voting against it.
The resolution is a blanket condemnation of the Iranian nuclear program and demands the immediate halt of construction at the Qom enrichment facility. The vote is seen as a first step toward more sanctions against Iran.
The legal basis for the demands are unclear, at best. Iran revealed the Qom facility in September, seemingly in keeping with its requirement to report such sites at least six months before completion. IAEA inspectors visited the site in October and officials say it is nothing to be worried about.
Iran has been enriching uranium for civilian use at its Natanz facility for quite some time, and the smaller, underground site at Qom is according to officials an attempt to safeguard some enrichment capability in the event of international attacks against Natanz, something long threatened by the US and Israel.
The IAEA has repeatedly certified that none of Iran’s uranium is being enriched above the low levels needed for energy production and none of it is being diverted to non-civilian purposes. In spite of this, Western nations have vowed to continue to press for more sanctions against Iran if it does not abandon its program.
If would appear that those organs of world government are as corrupt and dishonest as those of individual nation states. All politics must be Chicago.
Chickens came to roost. U.S. invents the atomic bomb believing some naive dream that nobody will be able to copy it, or develop one without U.S. help! If U.S. can have the nuclear weapons, why is it illegal for other countries to have the same? Did our country destroy thousands of bombs we have in our stockpile? I am not in favor for ANY country to have any nuclear weapons, but this delusion that other countries will sit idly while their adversaries are developing the weapons of mass destruction is a child's phantasy. Bunch of fools at least, not diplomats!
said it before and i'll say it again, Obama has obviously been going from country to country, mostly Russia and China, promising big bribes in order to go along with hard measures against Iran. Whatever the payoff was in this particular case, you can be assured that it will be payed for with YOUR tax dollars.
The lobby wins again. Hypocrisy, thy name is America.
I don't know what is obamas administration is playing here when the reports confirms & justifies what Iranian government has been saying a long time about their uranium enrichment(to produce electricity for domestic use not for creating bomb).