US Answers Iran's Nuclear Defiance with Call for More UN Sanctions

[jpak]

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-07-26-voa65.cfm

The State Department says Iran's continued defiance over its nuclear program should be met with more sanctions resolutions in the U.N. Security Council. VOA's Stephanie Ho reports from Washington.

Sean McCormack
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack says U.S. government officials have been meeting with their international counterparts to discuss sanctions on Iran over Tehran's nuclear program.

He especially took issue with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent comments that Iran would continue to pursue its nuclear program despite U.N. sanctions.

"Iran continues to be defiant," said McCormack. "You've just given Exhibit A , in terms of President Ahmadinejad's remarks, saying that Iran is going to become a nuclear weapons state, in contravention of its treaty obligations. So if Iran continues down that pathway, if it persists in its defiance, then the international system is going to react."

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[Deja Q]

1. India's nukes are closer than ours

:shrug:

[applegrove]

2. So when does the Australian and New Zealand lamb embargo start?

Cause Iran gets all its lamb from there.

[philb]

3. Many suggest that the U.S. has the most problematic history on nuclear proliferation of all

For example: (not only Japan/WWII but:

U.S. Responsible for The Greatest War Crimes of Historic Time –
DU
http://educate-yourself.org/du/connorgreatestcrime03dec06.shtml

Depleted Uranium Dust - Public Health Disaster For The People Of Iraq and Afghanistan http://educate-yourself.org/cn/depleteduraniumA03may06.shtml

Gulf War vet testifies on personal effects of DU radiation
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/depleteduraniumtoroost14feb05.shtml

Depleted Uranium - A Hidden Looming Worldwide Calamity
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=LEN20060119&articleId=1754
Depleted Uranium Measured in British Atmosphere from Battlefields in the Middle East http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2006/DU-Europe-Moret26feb06.htm
Depleted Uranium, Diabetes, Cancer and You, Alan Cantwell MD—01/2007 www.energygrid.com/health/2007/01ac-uranium.html

International Depleted Uranium Study Team (IDUST ) STATEMENT, To disseminate information and coordinate advocacy efforts worldwide; To bring about a total ban on weapons that contain depleted uranium
http://www.idust.net/

[losthills]

4. Unfortunately,

the Us has no credibility on this issue until we begin dismantling our own nuclear program. That won't happen until we elect some rational leaders.