Swift U.N. Action Unlikely on Iran Nukes--IPS

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1//Inter Press Service News Agency, Italy Aug 10, 2005

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SWIFT U.N. ACTION UNLIKELY ON IRAN NUKES

Haider Rizvi

UNITED NATIONS - The George W. Bush administration may like to see Iran face sanctions for its nuclear aspirations, but the political mood at the United Nations suggests that such punishment is not what the world community is ready for.

”We don't think it will be helpful to bring the issue to the Security Council,” Chinese ambassador to the U.N. Wang Guangya told reporters here a day after Iran broke the seals on uranium enrichment equipment at its nuclear plant in Isfahan.

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Observers say securing a majority on the 35-nation board of the IAEA to refer Iran to the Security Council would not be easy for the U.S. and the EU, since a majority of members on the Board belong to the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), who appear to have no desire to endorse such a move.

”This may cause serious international problems,” said retired Lt. Gen. Gennady Yevstafyev, senior counsel at the Centre for Political Research in Moscow, in an interview with Novsti, a Russian news agency.

”It is hard to imagine that all the members of the Security Council will elaborate a common approach to this problem. Consequently, they will fail to adopt any resolution on the matter,” he predicted.

”No one will consent to it, given the current political conditions,” he said. ”Besides, nobody wants Iran to withdraw from the NPT. If it does, it will completely discredit the treaty.”

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1. Do I detect

a giant yawn here?

Yes, I believe I do.