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UN Cranks Up Iran Sanctions

Posted Mar 3, 08 6:19 PM CST in World 

(Newser) – The UN hit Iran with a third round of sanctions today for refusing to halt its nuclear enrichment program, Reuters reports. The 14-0 security council vote approved more travel and financial limits and boosted trade restrictions, but was curbed by a US report that Tehran had scuttled its nuclear weapon plans in 2003, diplomats said.

Iran's UN envoy blasted the sanctions as a violation of international law and called the council "a mere tool of the foreign policy of just a few countries." Tehran's nuclear program "has been, is and will remain absolutely peaceful," he said. Diplomats stressed that positive incentives remain for Iran to drop its enrichment policy.

Sources Reuters, Times (UK)

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Mohammad Khazee, top left, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations addresses members of the Security Council before the Council voted to increase sanctions against Iran at U.N. Headquarters Monday, March...   (Associated Press)
Deputy Ambassador of France, Jean Pierre Lacroix, center, accompanied by German Ambassador Thomas Matussek, left, and British Ambassador John Sawers, right, addresses members of the media after Security...   (Associated Press)
Thomas Matussek, center, German ambassador to the United Nations accompanied by Britain's Ambassador John Sawers, right, and France's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Jean Pierre Lacroix, left, addresses members...   (Associated Press)
Iran's U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazee addresses members of the Security Council before the Council approve sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, at the U.N. headquarters...   (Associated Press)
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