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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro UN adopts resolution on Iranian atomicwork By Warren Hoge de la Prensa-Basm Ozeti UNITED NATIONS, New York: The Security Council adopted a resolution Monday demanding that Iran suspend its uranium' enrichment and reprocessing work by the end of August or face the possibility of sanctions. The vote was 14 to I, with Qatar, the Arab representative on the council, dissenting. Javad Zarif, the Iranian ambassador, speaking after the vote, rejected it, saying that the council was acting illegally and had no international credibility. "Ira'n's peaceful nuclear program poses no threat to international peace and security, and therefore dealing with this issue in the Security Council is unwarranted and void of any legal basis or practical utility," he said. He mocked the council for its inability to act forcefully in the current war in Lebanon, saying, "You be the judge of how much credibility this leaves for the Security Council Millions of people around the world have already passed their judgment." The resolution is the first move by the council ôn the Iranian nuclear program that is legally binding and carries the threat of sanctions. It demands the "full and sustained , suspension" of nuclear activities, including research and development, by Aug. 31, to be verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog. 'It also calls on all countries to pre: vent the shipment to Iran of any materials that could be used in its enrichmentrelated activities or ballistic missile programs. Nassir Abdulaziz ai-Nasser, Qatar's UN envoy, voting against the resolution Monday. "This is the first UN SC resolution on Iran in response to its nuclear weapons program, reflecting the gravity of this situation and the unity and determination of the council," said John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador. "We hope this resolution will demonstrate to Iran that the best way to end its international isolation is to simply give up the pursuit of nuclear weapons." Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, but the United States and its European allies argue that it is for bomb-making. The final text, worked out after objections from China and Russia, noted the need for "further decisions" before any punishments for noncompliance can be adopted. Those measures include economic, travel and communication sanctions, but do not resort to military force. Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador, stressed this aspect, saying that the measure should be viewed as an interim step and that all the council members had decided was to consider further action if Iran did not cooperate. Bolton emphasized the punishment aspects of the resolution, saying that if Iran did not comply with the council's demands, "we will be back here in a month looking at' a sanctions resolution." A number of speakers noted the failure of Iran to respond to a package of commercial and technological incentives offered to Iran on June 6 by Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States. "Our message to Iran is that we are open to negotiations, the package is quite clear, what it offers and what it requires," said Emyr Jones Par:ry, the British ambassador. "If Iran is prepared to take those steps, then we can move forward constructively." Zarif countered that Iran had agreed to give an answer to the package by Aug. 22 and the council was therefore acting prematurely. Bolton told reporters, "If you look at the entire length of the Iranian nuclear program, some 18 years, this is not exactly hasty action." The New York TImes Iran rejects council's vote The Associated Press TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday rejected a UN Security Council resolution that would give his nation until Aug. 31to suspend uranium enrichment. Ahmadinejad insisted that Tehran would pursue its nuclear program. "My words are the words of the Irani- International Herald Tribune Wednesday, August 2, 2006 an nation," he said. "Throughout Iran, there is one slogan: 'The Iranian nation considers the peaceful use of nuclear fuel production technology its right.' " The Security Council passed a resolution Monday calling for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment by the end of August or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions. Ahmadinejad said Iran would not give in to threats from the United Nations. ."If some t~ink they can still speak WIth threatemng language to the Iranian nation. they must know that they are badl"j' mistaken," he said in a speech broadcast live on state-run television. "Our nation has made its decision. We have passed the difficult stages," he said. "Today, the Iranian nation has acquired the nuclear technology." Drafted by Britain, France and Germany with U.S. backing, the resolution follows a July 12 agreement - among the foreign ministers of those four ' countries, Russia and China - to refer Tehran to the Security Council for not responding to the incentives package. 8
Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Bastn Ozeti Lebanon carnage appalls a torn Iraq By Damien Cave BAGHDAD: Several prominent Iraqi clerics and officials on Monday delivered their stiffest rebukes yet of Israeli airstrikes, condemning the civilian casualties in' Lebanon as shootings, bombings, and mass kidnappings continued to plague Iraq. Vice President Adil Abdul Mahdi, a , Shiite, described the Israeli bombing that killed 56 civilians in Qana, Lebanon, as a "massacre." Echoing earlier statements made by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, he said Iraqis of all sects were unified against the carnage and eager for a cease-fire. "These horrible massacres carried out by the Israeli aggression, like what happened at Qana, incite in us a spirit of solidarity," Abdul Mahdi said in a speech at a memorial for Ayatollah Muhammad Bakr al-Hakim, a cleric killed three years ago. "It's time for this nation to stand up and stop this aggression." Maliki, President Jalal Talabani, a Sunni Kurd, and Hakim's brother Abdul Aziz al-Hakim also spoke at the event in central Baghdad, offering similar condemnations of Israel to a gathered crowd' of more than 1,000. In the Shiite slum of Sadr city, hundreds of women and children marched Monday to protest the Israeli attacks. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, 'Iraq's most prominent Shiite religious leader, NEW YORK The world's attention is focused on the fighting in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, but the context leads inevitably back to Iran. Unfortunately, the diplomacy dealing with that issue is constantly outstripped by events. While explosives are raining on Lebanese and Israeli towns, and Israel reclaims portions of Gaza, the proposal to Iran of last May by the so-called Six (the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China) for negotiations on its nuclear weapons program still awaits an answer. It is possible that Tehran reads the almost pleading tone of some communications addressed to it as a sign of weakness and irresolution. Or perhaps the violence in Lebanon may have produced second thoughts among the mullahs regarding the risks in courting and triggering crisis. However the tea leaves are read, the current Near Eastern upheaval could become a turning point. Iran may come to appreciate the law of unintended consequences. For their part, the Six can no longer avoid dealing with the twin challenges that Iran imposes. On the one hand, the quest for nuclear weapons represents Iran's reach for IJ?-0~ernityvia the _power_sY~I?~1of the !00d- ' also issued a statement Sunday that criticized the "outrageous crime" at Qana. An anti-U.S. cleric, Moktada al-Sadr, said at a news conference Monday that he was "ready to go to Lebanon to defend it if this would stop the war." "We, the unified Iraqi people, will stand with the Lebanese people to end the ominous trio of the United States, Israel and Britain, which is terrorizing Iraq, Lebanon, Mghanistan and other occupied nations," he said. "We do not want U.S.enterprises in the Middle East." The increasingly caustic response to events abroad came on a day rife with continuing violence in Iraq. In central Baghdad on Monday, about 20 gunmen wearing Interior Ministry uniforms kidnapped at least 12 people from a mobile phone company and eight people from the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry, an Interior Ministry official said. Witnesses said the gunmen arrived in pick-up trucks with Interior Ministry markings and cordoned off the area, separating female employees from the crowd and taking the men. Among the abducted was Raad Omar, the Sunni director of the Chamber of Commerce, which was founded three years ago to increase trade with the United States. In a drive-by shooting at 9 a.ID.a senior intelligence officer, Colonel Fakhri Jamil Salman, was killed in southwest Baghdad, the Interior Ministry official said. A half-hour later, a car bomb ex- ploded near a mosque in northern Baghdad, wounding two people. At dusk Monday, gunmen killed a senior advisor to the Health Ministry, shooting him in his car. Throughout the capital, an additional 21 unidentified bodies were found by the authorities, many of them with gunshot wounds to their heads. On a highway between Tikrit and Kirkuk, gunmen killed three police officers and kidnapped two others after forcing an ambulance off the road Sunday night, according to an Iraqi police official in Kirkuk. He said that on Monday the police found the bodies of the other two kidnapped officers. In Mosul, a suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi Army checkpoint, killing four, according to an army official. Separately Monday, U.S. Representative Tom Cole, a Republican from Oklahoma, warned during a visit to Baghdad that domestic support for a plan to assign U.S. troops to police the capital might be short-li~ed. President George W. Bush and Maliki announced the security plan for Baghdad last week in Washington. '~ericans are not going to be very patient about having American forces essentially being police officers and maintaining Iraqi groups," he said. The New York TImes Now Tehran's choice is cast in starker terms order between indigenous • By Henry A. Kissinger ernstate; at the same time, this claim is put forward by a fervent kind of Muslim extremism that has kept the Muslim Middle East unmodernized for centuries. This conundrum can be solved without conflict only if Iran adopts a modernism consistent with international order and a view of Islam compatible with peaceful coexistence. Heretofore, the Six have been vague about their response to an Iranian refusal to negotiate, except for unspecific threats of sanctions through the UN Security Council. But if a deadlock leads to de facto acquiescence in the Iranian nuclear program, prospects ' for international order will dim everywhere. Every country, especially those composing the Six, will face growing threats, be they increased domestic pressure from radical Islamic groups, terrorist acts or the nearly inevitable conflagrations sparked by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. A modern, strong, peaceful Iran, by contrast, could become a pillar of stability and progress in the region. This cannot happen unless Iran's leaders decide between representing a cause or a nation, whether their basic motivation is crusading or international cooperation. The goal of the diplomacy of the Six should be to oblige Iran to confront this choice. Diplomacy never operates in a vacuum. 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