U.N. Is Set To Vote On Iran Sanctions

[Dover]

Source: NYT

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council is scheduled on Wednesday to impose new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, taking aim at the financial might of the Revolutionary Guards Corps as well as Iran’s military and nuclear industries with the addition of 41 enterprises to the blacklist.

The main sanctions seek to impede the nuclear industry, impose an embargo on heavy weapons sales and push for ship inspections. But the major powers, at odds over how strong the sanctions should be, had been negotiating the list of companies and individuals to be singled out.

The official new blacklist, obtained by The New York Times in the prelude to the vote, comes after months of negotiations, largely between the Americans and the Chinese over how to expand the list already included in three previous resolutions.

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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/world/middleeast/09sanctions.html

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Iran Circumventing Sanctions

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7146440.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=2015164

[David__77]

1. How can China and Russia support this?

It's a betrayal - they cynically position themselves as champions of the developing countries. Why sanctions? For what crime?

[eternalflame]

2. Vote passed 12 - 2

The only countries against the sanctions were Turkey and Brazil. I wonder if this country seriously believes that new sanctions will make Iran more cooperative.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/09/AR2010060902876.html