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Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/02/iran.un.ap/
UN Security Council to Mull Targeted Sanctions on Iran
(AP/CNN) The U.S., Britain, and France are looking ahead to sanctions if Iran continues to defy demands that it halt uranium enrichment - but not the sweeping economic and military embargoes the UN Security Council imposed on Iraq after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said, "The general idea we have on Iran is more targeted sanctions aimed at specific individuals responsible for the nuclear program and the country's direction of the nuclear program."