March 4, 2008 UN Resolution will
have No Impact: Iran
Tehran
The latest UN Security Council resolution would have no impact on
Iran's nuclear plans, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali
Hosseini said Tuesday.
"The latest UN resolution will have no impact on Iran's will to
pursue peaceful nuclear programmes," Hosseini said in a statement.
The UN Security Council voted Monday 14-0, with Indonesia
abstaining, to impose additional sanctions on Iran for its continued
refusal to abandon nuclear activities.
"The resolution is contrary to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
reports and rather politically motivated and hostile. We condemn
this resolution and consider it as anti-Iranian, valueless and
unacceptable," the spokesman said.
"This resolution has just once again undermined the prestige of the
IAEA and discredited the UN Security Council," Hosseini added.
Earlier in the day, a senior Iranian MP termed the latest resolution
against Iran as "political and unacceptable," ISNA news agency
reported.
"The resolution is solely politically motivated and therefore
unacceptable for Iran," Alaeddin Borujerdi, head of the parliament's
foreign policy and security commission, told ISNA.
"Resolution 1803 is contrary to the contents of the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran and can therefore not be
implemented," the MP said.
The Security Council resolution said any activities that would
provide Iran with goods, equipment, materials and technology for its
nuclear programme, some of which was prohibited by the council since
2006 and under an enlarged set of sanctions in 2007, would be
prohibited.
The Security Council also demanded Iran to suspend its controversial
uranium enrichment drive, a demand Tehran had ignored in the past,
maintaining that UN resolutions had no legal basis.
Monday's additional sanctions were contained in a resolution, the
third since 2006.
The resolutions in 2006 and 2007 have failed to prevent Iran from
obtaining advanced and faster centrifuges to perfect its uranium
enrichment programmes, and there was no guarantee that the third
resolution would bring the results wanted by the world's most
powerful and nuclear states.
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