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| Iran rejects UN sanctions as invalid |
| 2007-11-24 |
| Iran on Friday called UN sanctions invalid and warned its enemies to expect a tidal wave of resistance if they increase pressure on Teheran to freeze uranium enrichment. The comments from Teheran and Vienna, at the end of a two-day meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35 nation board in the Austrian capital, reflected the chasm between the views of Iran and the West on what Teheran has to do to escape further UN punishment. Ali Asghar Soltanieh, the chief Iranian delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Security Council resolutions demanding a stop to enrichment have "no legal basis." And he accused Washington of making a political issue of what he maintained was a program only meant to produce electricity by falsely warning of the "threat of Iran's plutonium nuclear weapon. Allegations ... (of) Iran's clandestine and non-peaceful activities are now proved to be baseless." |
| Posted by:Fred |