Iran condemns new draft resolution

March 17, 2007

Washington said it would make every effort to accelerate Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a visa, allowing him to come to New York to appear before the UN Security Council. He said Shawn Makromak spokesman for the White House said that Iranian officials had applied for a visa at the American embassy in Switzerland.

The Iranian Mission to the United Nations on Thursday asked for permission to allow the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended the meeting of the Security Council which will vote on an international resolution imposing new sanctions on Iran because of its nuclear program.

The Iranian president had pledged on Friday to complete the work in the country's nuclear program.

Nejad said that his country was facing mounting international pressure to halt work on its nuclear program that Iran would not yield to international pressure to abandon the nuclear fuel cycle.

The Iranian President's statements came a day after the approval of the major members of the Security Council on a draft resolution imposing new sanctions on Tehran include a ban on arms sales and economic sanctions.

The draft resolution includes a ban on exports of arms and Iran freeze the assets of individuals and companies related to Iran's nuclear programs, missile and an invitation to the states and organizations that provide grants or loans to the Islamic Republic.

The language of threats

The Iranian delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations, the smaller bowl, that the threat of imposing international sanctions on his country wider is not a building.

He added in an interview with the BBC that the language of threat to any benefit and that no legal rules originally set penalties currently applied to Iran.

He emphasized that the Iranians are united in their support for the nuclear program in an unprecedented way and that Iran's possession of nuclear technology a matter of pride on the national level.

The news agency quoted Iran's official Islamic Republic of Nejad said in a rally in the town center of Iran, "to have a nuclear fuel cycle. And will not abandon them under pressure. Through your meetings (United Nations) you (Western forces) You can not Targulwa course of the Iranian nation, "according to Reuters.

Be committed to the suspension of the sanctions if Iran and returned to the negotiations.

The West feared that Iranian nuclear activities are aimed at producing nuclear weapons.

Iran refutes the fourth largest oil exporter in the world these accusations.

Regarding the request Nejad attend the meeting of the Security Council, said Dumisani Kumalo, the Ambassador of South Africa and the current President of the Security Council, that "the Council will have to decide whether to respond to this request or not."

He added : "The current challenge is that we do not know any time that would happen."

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