An official handout picture shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (centre) during a visit to the Natanz uranium enrichment facilities, south of Tehran earlier this year. Iran has rejected any deadline to give a final response to a package put forward by world powers seeking a breakthrough in the nuclear crisis, and said it had already responded. (AFP/HO/File) From FOX News:
WASHINGTON — Representatives of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — and Germany decided in a high-level conference call that Iran's lack of response to an incentives package aimed at getting it to halt sensitive atomic activity left them no option other than to pursue new punitive measures, the Bush administration said Monday.
Representatives of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany decided in a high-level conference call that Iran's lack of response to an incentives package aimed at getting it to halt sensitive atomic activity left them no option other than to pursue new punitive measures, the Bush administration said.
"We are disappointed that we have not yet received a response from Iran," State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos told reporters. "We agreed in the absence of a clear, positive response from Iran (that) we have no choice but to pursue further measures against Iran."
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Major powers threaten new sanctions on Iran: US -- Yahoo News/AP
US: UN Council Must Increase Sanctions on Iran - Reuters
US Warns of Further Sanctions Against Iran -- Voice Of America
U.S., UK, France urge more vigilance on Iran banks -- Reuters
UN sets Iran sanctions deadline -- BBC News
U.N. Security Council eyes more Iran sanctions -- CNN
EU's Solana holds 'inconclusive' nuclear talks with Iran --Forbes Magazine
Iran Ignores Deadline -- Los Angeles Times
Iran wants diplomacy to resolve nuclear stand-off -- Scotsman
My Comment: The diplomats are doing what diplomats do all the time .... they are running around in the hope of having further discussions. But because nothing has been offered in return from Iran, this is going to go nowhere. I expect comprehensive sanctions on Iran to be agreed upon from the EU and the U.S. in the next few weeks.
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The best gainer in Iran case is actually Israel. It can now stand alone in the ME with its mighty military power and with 100s of N.Weapons. The worst thing for the Arabs is that they could never be united. So Israel is bombing on any country it wants like it attacked iraq,Syria etc in the name of its so called sequrity.
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