 Iran on Thursday night rejected a resolution approved by the UN nuclear watchdog on the Iranian nuclear issue as "politically motivated."
| That's prob'ly why they call it "international politix," isn't it? |
"This resolution is politically motivated and has been approved under the pressures of the United States and its allies and is void of any legal or rational basis, and (therefore it) is unacceptable," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said, quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
| Okay. Not accepting it won't make it go away, though. |
Earlier in the day, the 35-nation Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approved a resolution on the Iranian nuclear file. The resolution voices "serious concern" over Iran's recent resumption of uranium conversion activities and urges Iran to "re-establish full suspension of all enrichment-related activities." However, the resolution does not have any teeth mention the referral of Iran's nuclear case to the UN Security Council, which the European Union (EU) had previously said would be triggered by Iran's resumption.
| Hence its contemptuous dismissal... |
The resolution also asks the agency's Director General Mohamed ElBaradei to "continue to monitor closely the situation and to inform the Board of any further developments and to provide a comprehensive report on the implementation of Iran's Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Safeguards Agreement and this resolution by Sept. 3." |