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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (6) Video Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared Gulf spill in Washington spotlight | Video 2:53am EDT U.S debt to rise to $19.6 trillion by 2015 08 Jun 2010 Sprint says it overstated EVO launch day sales 12:48am EDT U.N. council to hit defiant Iran with new sanctions | Video 1:58am EDT Analysis: U.N. rebukes of Israel permitted in U.S. policy shift 08 Jun 2010 Wealthy businesswomen win California Republican races 2:24am EDT Circumcision may prevent sex-related penis injuries 04 Jun 2010 WRAPUP 1-Gulf spill in Washington spotlight 1:00am EDT Lindsay Lohan's drinking leads to near arrest 08 Jun 2010 Special Report: The incredible saga of Europe's A400M 08 Jun 2010 U.S debt to rise to $19.6 trillion by 2015 08 Jun 2010 Secondhand smoke may harm mental health 08 Jun 2010 Analysis: U.N. rebukes of Israel permitted in U.S. policy shift 08 Jun 2010 Circumcision may prevent sex-related penis injuries 04 Jun 2010 Sprint says it overstated EVO launch day sales 12:48am EDT Special Report: The incredible saga of Europe's A400M 08 Jun 2010 Farmer fires home-made cannon to defend land 08 Jun 2010 Gulf spill in Washington spotlight | Video 2:53am EDT Wealthy businesswomen win California Republican races 2:24am EDT U.S. debt to rise to $19.6 trillion by 2015 08 Jun 2010 U.N. council to hit defiant Iran with new sanctions Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS Wed Jun 9, 2010 1:58am EDT Related Video UN to vote on Iran sanctions. Tue, Jun 8 2010 A young boy stands behind a flag as he and his mother, supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wait for his arrival at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport May 5, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Morteza Nikoubazl UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council is set to impose a new round of sanctions on a defiant Iran on Wednesday over a nuclear program that Western powers suspect is aimed at developing atomic weapons. World The 15-nation council meets at 10:00 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) to vote on a draft resolution that was the product of five months of talks between the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia. The four Western powers had wanted much tougher measures -- some targeting Iran's energy sector -- but Beijing and Moscow worked hard to dilute the steps proposed in a 10-page draft. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Ecuador on Tuesday that it would be the "the most significant sanctions Iran has ever faced. Iran rejects Western allegations that it is seeking nuclear weapons, insisting that its nuclear ambitions are peaceful. The draft resolution calls for measures against new Iranian banks abroad if a connection to the nuclear or missile programs is suspected, as well as vigilance over transactions with any Iranian bank, including the central bank. It also would expand a U.N. arms embargo against Tehran and blacklist three entities controlled by Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and 15 belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The resolution would also set up a cargo inspection regime similar to one in place for North Korea. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday that individual states will likely move quickly to pass their own measures that go beyond the U.N. sanctions. In addition to the draft resolution is a list of 40 companies to be added to an existing U.N. blacklist of firms whose assets around the world are to be frozen on suspicion of aiding Iran's nuclear or missile programs. The new blacklist, obtained by Reuters, also includes an individual, Javad Rahiqi, head of an Iranian nuclear center where uranium is processed. His assets will also be frozen and he will face an international travel ban. The focus of heated last-minute negotiations, the new blacklist on Tuesday morning contained 41 firms, including two banks. By the end of the day China had demanded the deletion of one bank, the Export Development Bank of Iran. Council diplomats predicted the resolution would pass, though it would likely get only 12 yes votes. Lebanon, they said, would probably abstain, while Turkey and Brazil were seen either abstaining or voting against the resolution. All five powers with a veto -- the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia -- are expected to vote in favor. IRAN DEFIANT The first two Iran sanctions resolutions adopted in 2006 and 2007 passed unanimously. The council approved a third set of sanctions in 2008 with 14 yes votes and one abstention. Three rounds of punitive measures aimed at Iran's nuclear and missile industries have hit its economy hard but failed to persuade Tehran's leadership to halt its nuclear program or come to the negotiating table, analysts say. Instead, Iran continues to enrich uranium at increasingly higher levels, despite occasional hints of possible military action against its nuclear sites by Israel or Washington. Iran's U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee, in remarks that were distributed by the Iranian mission, said the push for sanctions showed that some countries "prefer confrontation." "In such a condition, the Islamic Republic of Iran has no choice but to react accordingly in the way it considers appropriate," Khazaee said without giving details. An Iranian lawmaker said Tehran would reconsider its cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog if the sanctions went ahead -- a threat Tehran has made before. Diplomats said U.S. officials were working hard in New York to persuade Turkey and Brazil to abstain from Wednesday's vote, but it was unclear if they would succeed. Lebanon, they say, is unable to support the resolution because the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is in the government. Turkey and Brazil last month revived parts of a U.N.-backed offer for Tehran to part with 1,200 kg (2,600 pounds) of low enriched uranium in return for special fuel rods for a medical research reactor. They say the deal removes the need for sanctions and have refused to engage in discussions on the draft resolution. The United States, Britain, France and Germany say the fuel swap deal did nothing to change Tehran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment in defiance of five Security Council resolutions. That defiance, Western diplomats say, has added to a growing irritation with Iran in Moscow and Beijing, which remain close trading partners with Tehran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admonished Russia at a news conference in Istanbul, where he was attending a summit along with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, to take care "not to be on the side of the enemies of the Iranian people." (Reporting by Louis Charbonneau, editing by Anthony Boadle) World Comments See All Comments (6) | Post Comment Jun 08, 2010 10:38pm EDT down with united state government that is in confronting inproperly with iranian people . shame be with usa leaders.iran is a grate contry dr_omid Report As Abusive Jun 08, 2010 10:43pm EDT hillary clinton is a bitch woman. i can swear god that is is whore and has bad nature dr_omid Report As Abusive Jun 08, 2010 10:49pm EDT Sanctions should be imposed on Israel, not Iran. Israel is the real terrorist state. wayne2010 Report As Abusive Jun 08, 2010 10:50pm EDT Hey, look, all kidding aside, This Is It, Straight fROM tHE shoulder, The Pure Unvarnished Truth and/or the Real McCoy : AIPAC controls the US Congress. OK, Honest to G-D , Here Comes The Genuine Article, So Hold onto your Hats: The USA invaded Iraq for Israel, over a Big Lie. irwinsteffy Report As Abusive Jun 09, 2010 12:43am EDT IT IS A BRIBED CONSPIRACY SANCTION ON IRAN FOR NOTHING ON BEHALF OF UNBREAKABLE BOND ISRAEL. THEREFORE, MIDEAST NATIONS NEED TO HAVE PERMANENT IMPARTIAL VETO WIELDING MEMBER AT UN SECURITY COUNCIL NOW !!!. IT NEEDS A CHANGE NOW U.S. policy on nuclear Iran underscores bias toward Unbreakable bond Israel, AFTER IRAQ WITH NEVER BEEN FOUND WMD, IT IS CLEAR BY NOW US ANTI IRAN TIRADE RHETORIC DOUBLE STANDARD IS ONLY ON BEHALF OF UNBREAKABLE BOND ISRAEL, NOT THE NON PROLIFERATION TREATY OR THE WORLD, TO MAKE SURE THAT ISRAEL IS THE SOLE NUKES POSSESSOR IN MIDEAST. HISTORY PROVES ITSELF. THERE IS NO SINGLE CREDITABLE EVIDENCE THAT IRAN FLOUTS THE NPT RULES OR DEVELOPS NUKES. US AND ZIONIST MEDIA USING PROPAGANDA LIES TO CREATE ILLUSION AND MAKE BELIEVE THAT IRAN IS TO DEVELOP NUKES. US NEVER CLEARLY STATES WHAT IRAN HAS DONE WRONG WITH NPT. Washington’s “double standard” on Iran, a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), while selling “nuclear technology to Israel and India,” a non-signatory to the NPT. US continues its annual $3 billion assistance to Israel, despite an American law forbidding aid to any country producing weapons of mass destruction. Not only did ISRAEL THREATEN TO SEND SYRIA BACK TO STONE AGE BUT ALSO Israel offered to sell apartheid-era South Africa nuclear warheads in 1975. Iran is a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, is at the moment FULLY in compliance with it, has no nuclear arsenal, and does not even have a nuclear weapons program. (The treaty allows countries to enrich uranium for fuel, which is all that Iran is known to be doing). NPT signatories have treaty-based rights to seek civilian energy production, either by enriching uranium or separating plutonium. Article IV: 1. Nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with Articles I and II of this Treaty. 2. All the Parties to the Treaty undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological information for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Parties to the Treaty in a position to do so shall also co-operate in contributing alone or together with other States or international organizations to the further development of the applications of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, especially in the territories of non-nuclear-weapon States Party to the Treaty, with due consideration for the needs of the developing areas of the world. In addition, the International Atomic Energy Agency has conducted numerous inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence showing that Iran’s civilian nuclear program has been diverted to nuclear weapons production. With more than 200 nuclear weapons and the capacity to deliver them against its enemies or use them to buttress its policies, Israel refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty or to open its nuclear facilities for International Atomic Energy Agency inspection. On the other hand, Israel and the United States insist on applying the harshest possible sanctions against Iran, which they fear may be developing nuclear weapons. The United States furthermore is responding to a regional initiative to make the Middle East a zone free of weapons of mass destruction by linking it to progress in the peace process, which means a peace customized by and suited especially to meet Israel’s interests, naturally, because Israel is the sole nuclear power in the region. In promoting this deal, imposed by a nuclear Israel on a much weaker region, the United States is affirming that it certainly pays to be a nuclear power — you get things done on your terms — It is making mockery of other nations when the white house spokesman says Iran must assure THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. In fact more than hundred countries support Iran’s right to nuclear technology UNDER NPT but the white house spokesman and the media do not consider that number of countries as international community. INDONESIA CERTAIN IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME NOT FOR DEFENCE PURPOSES. OIC backs Iran nuclear declaration The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has backed an Iranian declaration which aims to end a standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program. 118 member states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), have once again voiced support for Iran’s right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The organization said nations, including Iran, have an inalienable right to the peaceful use of atomic energy. UN SECURITY COUNCIL SHALL REJECT IRAN SANCTION FOR THE SHAKE OF PEACE, NOT FOR WAR ON BEHALF OF US AND UNBREAKABLE BOND ISRAEL. INSPECTING IRANIAN VESSELS ON HIGH SEAS LIKE NORTH KOREA IS AN ACT OF WAR BUT IRAN HAS NOT TESTED NUKES. lipservice56 Report As Abusive Jun 09, 2010 3:05am EDT All peoples in world know israel attached to many peoples and freedom group and daid many childs and … and US help to israel for dead child and peoples in phalestin and meditrane sea in midle east.. and all people in world know Iran peoples are Educated and have many university and university student and profossors.. and no attach to a country yet and not dead children or many peoples and closed many trorist group and send to cell I love iran i love education and knowlage and shame to USA and my friends in USA for idiot obama group and help to israel shame to you, i hate you SaraUN Report As Abusive See All Comments (6) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. 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