Eye On Iran: U.S. Circulates New Draft Proposal for Iran Sanctions
Thu, 03/04/2010 - 11:51 | by uaniadminDid
You Know?
"During 1980-88, Iran fought a bloody, indecisive war with Iraq that
eventually expanded into the Persian Gulf and led to clashes between US
Navy
and Iranian military forces between 1987 and 1988," according to the
CIA
World Factbook. http://bit.ly/8nkJJ3
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Stories
NYT: "The United States is circulating a draft of
new, tougher
sanctions against Iran that concentrate on the banking, shipping and
insurance
sectors of Iran's economy and is now waiting for China and Russia to
signal
that they are willing to start negotiating over the measures, United
Nations
Security Council diplomats said Wednesday." http://nyti.ms/cg4Zs0
WSJ: "The Obama administration, still struggling to
win China's
pivotal backing for a new round of United Nations sanctions against
Iran, is
increasingly worried about gaining the support of some other members of
the
U.N. Security Council, particularly Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon,
according to
U.S. and European officials." http://bit.ly/c54zE6
CS Monitor: "Brazil rebuffed Ms. Clinton's efforts
to win support
for more sanctions on Iran's nuclear program. Brazilian
Foreign Minister
Celso Amorim told reporters Wednesday that Brazil wanted two or three
months'
more negotiation with Iran. 'We still have some possibility
of coming to
an agreement ... but that may require a lot of flexibility on both
sides,' he
said, with Clinton present. 'We will not simply bow down to the
evolving
consensus if we do not agree.'" http://bit.ly/bGdpOO
Nuclear
Program
WP: "Here is a guide to the key players among U.N.
ambassadors who
will be negotiating what Washington hopes will be the fourth round of
sanctions." http://bit.ly/cRzTUn
Radio Farda: "Impossible? Not really. Granted, if
your country is a
signatory of the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), as most countries are,
the
constraints on your bomb building are considerable. Inspections by the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are difficult to circumvent.
And the
IAEA can no longer be fooled as easily as in the 1980s, when it failed
to
uncover Saddam Hussein's military nuclear program in Iraq despite
regular
inspections." http://bit.ly/b8efts
WP: "Iran came under renewed attack Wednesday for
its decision to
make a higher grade of enriched uranium, a move that weapons experts
say would
dramatically shorten the country's path to nuclear weapons." http://bit.ly/cBhjNL
Commerce
Bloomberg: "The New York-based group United Against
Nuclear Iran
has stepped up pressure on companies to sever ties to Iran, including
business
unrelated to its nuclear program. Peoria, Illinois-based Caterpillar
Inc.,
Munich-based Siemens AG and The Woodlands, Texas-based Huntsman Corp.
have
announced that they or their subsidiaries would no longer do business
in
Iran." http://bit.ly/bn85vT
Reuters: "UANI sent a four-page letter on Tuesday
to Ingersoll
Chief Executive Mike Lamach detailing what it calls 'extensive
dealings' in
Iran, which argues that conducting business in Iran violates the
company's code
of conduct. At issue are air compressors used in industrial
plants run by
the state-owned National Iranian Oil Company, according to the letter."
http://bit.ly/cy43g2
Human Rights
AP: "U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay has singled
out Iran for
its crackdown on protestors after last year's election in an address at
the
U.N. Human Rights Council. Pillay said human rights are
'deteriorating'
in Iran and that she is deeply concerned." http://nyti.ms/cSTyHf
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