The IAEA toughens sanctions against Iran

Filed under:Conflicts — posted by webmaster on March 8, 2007 @ 7:40 pm

On Thursday at the IAEA Vein board meeting the decision on toughening sanctions against Iran was accepted.
In particular, the western countries are measured to stop rendering the technical assistance to Iran. For example, this can be supply by new technologies. Such radical measures have been accepted in reply to Teheran’s refusal to curtail work on uranium enrichment.
As BBC, referring to the IAEA representatives, informs, the majority of the IAEA commission members have voted for freezing 22 of 55 projects on rendering assistance to Iran.
The United States and France which supervise the IAEA scale programs on rendering assistance to the different countries, demanded acceptance of even more rigid sanctions against Iran.
The countries of non-alignment Movement, to which Iran also belongs, have made the protest against the IAEA’s decision. They are afraid, that the decision concerning Iran can adversely be reflected in their own mutual relations with IAEA, whose programs of the help are necessary for maintenance of developing economics.
The IAEA Programs, which have now appeared, are inaccessible to Iran, meaning the help to the country in development of technologies on fuel manufacture.
The Iranian authorities have condemned the IAEA’s decision. In their opinion, the UN Security Council has impartiality affected on the IAEA’s experts.
As the diplomatic representative of Iran has declared, that Iranian nuclear program has nothing common with creation of the nuclear weapon and its development will be continued despite of any obstacles.
On Wednesday the European Union has called Iran to accept the IAEA’s requirements, having promised, that if it will do this, all sanctions against Iran, supported the EU, will be immediately cancelled.
For all 50-years history of the IAEA’s existence only two countries (Northern Korea and Iraq) were exposed to rigid sanctions from this organization because of similar fears.
 

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