President Ahmadinejad Fuming and invoking the Dead
"If All of You Gather and Also Invite Your Ancestors From Hell, You Will Not be Able to Stop Iran"
UNITED NATIONS -- Six world powers reached agreement Thursday on a package of new sanctions against Iran including an embargo on arms exports and financial restrictions on more individuals and companies associated with Tehran's nuclear and missile programs, many linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
The governments of the five permanent Security Council nations — the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France — and Germany gave a green light to the draft resolution hammered out by their ambassadors. It will now be presented to the 10 non-permanent Security Council nations who have been left out of negotiations.
"We have an agreement and I will introduce a text on behalf of the six," Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry said after a meeting of ambassadors from the six countries. "It's a text which is our suggestions. It's not take it or leave it."
The non-permanent council members, who are elected for two-year terms, will need time to consider the text and the current council president, South Africa's U.N. Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo, said Wednesday, "We anticipate that the voting would happen maybe well into next week."
But the agreement by the five veto-wielding permanent members will be a strong signal of the unity of the key nations on the U.N.'s most powerful body — and a sign that they want to send a united message to Iran to suspend uranium enrichment.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday called the U.N. Security Council an "illegitimate" body and said that any new sanctions imposed on his country would only stimulate it to be self sufficient and further develop nuclear technology.
UNITED NATIONS -- Six world powers reached agreement Thursday on a package of new sanctions against Iran including an embargo on arms exports and financial restrictions on more individuals and companies associated with Tehran's nuclear and missile programs, many linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
The governments of the five permanent Security Council nations — the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France — and Germany gave a green light to the draft resolution hammered out by their ambassadors. It will now be presented to the 10 non-permanent Security Council nations who have been left out of negotiations.
"We have an agreement and I will introduce a text on behalf of the six," Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry said after a meeting of ambassadors from the six countries. "It's a text which is our suggestions. It's not take it or leave it."
The non-permanent council members, who are elected for two-year terms, will need time to consider the text and the current council president, South Africa's U.N. Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo, said Wednesday, "We anticipate that the voting would happen maybe well into next week."
But the agreement by the five veto-wielding permanent members will be a strong signal of the unity of the key nations on the U.N.'s most powerful body — and a sign that they want to send a united message to Iran to suspend uranium enrichment.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday called the U.N. Security Council an "illegitimate" body and said that any new sanctions imposed on his country would only stimulate it to be self sufficient and further develop nuclear technology.
"Today, the Iranian nation fully possesses the nuclear fuel cycle," Ahmadinejad said at a rally in Ardakan, Iran. "If all of you gather and also invite your ancestors from hell, you will not be able to stop the Iranian nation," he said, according to the state Islamic Republic News Agency...read the rest
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