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Israel Urging Iran Sanctions

(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Following Iran's rejection of the latest international effort to prevent it from building nuclear weapons, Israel is urging the international community to impose sanctions aimed at denying Tehran any nuclear fuel cycle capabilities. Behind the scenes, Israel is arguing that Tehran's refusal to allow the export of most of its low-enriched uranium demonstrates that it wants to preserve that stockpile for non-peaceful purposes. Furthermore, Iran's failure to come clean about its Qom enrichment facility, buried deep inside a mountain and intended to hold 3,000 centrifuges, underlines its failure to act within legal international provisions. As a consequence, Israel believes, Iran should be penalized by the UN Security Council. It should be prevented from putting the Qom facility to any enrichment use. Moreover, the international community should insist on the cessation of all enrichment and all plutonium production. If more sanctions cannot be imposed via the UN because of insufficient support, Israel argues that they should be applied as soon as possible by a coalition of the willing.
2009-11-20 08:16:16
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