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US wants quick UN action on Iran
2006-04-28
The United States and Britain said on Friday they would step up pressure on Iran by moving quickly on a U.N. Security Council resolution seeking to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions, despite objections from China.

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton and British Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry were responding to a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency that said Iran had ignored a March council statement demanding Tehran suspend uranium enrichment, a process used in making bombs as well as electric power And glow in the dark watches!.

"I think it is clear that Iran has done Pretty much whatever the hell it wants nothing to comply with existing IAEA board resolutions or the requests in the Security Council statement" of last month, Bolton said.

"The point is to enhance international pressure on Iran, to show just how isolated they are," Bolton said. "There is still time for Iran to reverse the policy it is pursuing."

Jones Parry said his delegation would introduce a draft resolution on the IAEA report by the middle of next week.

But the initial resolution will not threaten sanctions or hint at military force.

Instead it will put directives by the 35-member IAEA board of governors and the March council statement into a U.N. resolution under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which makes it legally binding. The resolution would also say that Iran's nuclear program was a threat to "international peace and security," Bolton said.
Ya, that has worked SOOOO well in the past, hasn't it? Rest of drivel at link.
Posted by:Greretle Elmaise9763

#7  I want a million dollars.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-04-28 20:47  

#6  Note to DarthBolton: ahMad doesn't care about being isolated. Invoke the Death Star!
Posted by: Captain America   2006-04-28 17:31  

#5  they aren't going to do shit.

Amen brother. That is exactly what's going to happen.
Posted by: JerseyMike   2006-04-28 16:01  

#4  Normally, Anonymoose, I would agree. However, the US diplomats have proven to be such a bunch of talentless baffoons in the past, that I see this as another waste of time, talk, money, etc. At the end of the day, Russia, China and France will be on one side, US and eastern europe and a couple of arab nations on the other. Nothing will get done other than the aggrivation of countries and we will still have to blow the shit out of a now prepared and possibly nuclear Iran.
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-04-28 14:34  

#3  Don't underestimate what we're about. Diplomacy is sometimes like an issue oriented chess game. In this case, each wise diplomatic move results in our getting our way, more and more. Checkmate would be if we could stop Iran's nuclear weapons program with no interference from the other powers.

We are damn good chess players, but even so we must go through the motions, sometimes even sacrificing in some ways, to end up with the optimal situation from our point of view.

To use another analogy, it is not a "Red Queen's Race", though it usually appears we are running in place at the UN. It always has short, medium, and long-term goals, hidden though they may be. And it remains, "war through other means".
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-04-28 14:24  

#2  A chapter 7 resolution carries the implicit threat "or else". We'll see if the chinese and russians veto or not.
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2006-04-28 14:03  

#1  I.E. they aren't going to do shit.

I can't see one benefit to us for being in the U.N.
All we do is shell out huge sums of money and take a bunch of abuse for it.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-04-28 13:49  

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