-------------------------------------------------------- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4284772.stm Iran warns against UN rebuke Iran has threatened to stop nuclear inspectors carrying out snap checks if a threat to report the country to the UN Security Council is carried out. On Saturday the UN's nuclear watchdog approved a resolution paving the way for Tehran to be reported to the body, which could impose sanctions. The decision by Iran to resume uranium enrichment has triggered a crisis. Tehran insists its nuclear programme is purely for peaceful purposes and not to produce nuclear arms as the US alleges. The resolution setting in motion a procedure that could lead to sanctions was passed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Saturday. Submitted by Britain, France and Germany, it called on the agency's board to consider reporting Iran - at an unspecified date - to the Security Council. It says Tehran's "many failures and breaches" over international nuclear safeguards "constitute non-compliance" with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Failure to comply with the NPT is automatic grounds for a report to the Security Council, under IAEA rules. Twelve members of the agency's board abstained. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki rejected the vote, branding it, "political, illegal and illogical". The head of the IAEA, Mohammed ElBaradei, has said there is still room for diplomacy. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/4284772.stm Published: 2005/09/26 19:41:21 GMT © BBC MMV -- http://cyberjournal.org "Apocalypse Now and the Brave New World" http://www.cyberjournal.org/cj/rkm/Apocalypse_and_NWO.html
