Israel urges US to act alone, as anti-Iran bids fail
Aletho / Aletho
03-Mar-2010

As US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tours Latin America to
recruit support for new international sanctions on Iran over its nuclear
program, Tel Aviv urges Washington to adopt Cuba-like embargos against
Tehran.

Israel and the US accuse Iran of seeking nuclear arms, as Tel Aviv
threatens to attack Iranian nuclear installations and Washington warns
of keeping ‘all options on the table,’ including economic sanctions and
military measures.

Iran, however, says its program, which is extensively monitored by
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is directed at the
civilian applications of the technology. The country has also called on
all nuclear powers to abandon atomic weaponry and eliminate all such
arsenal.

Clinton, meanwhile, is on a five-day tour of Latin America. She was
quoted by the Associated Press as saying that Washington is working
“expeditiously and thoroughly” to rally support for new Iran sanctions.

She has arrived in Brazil, a non-permanent member of the UN Security
Council (UNSC), to win support for the sanctions. Brazil has repeatedly
said that Iran is entitled to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.

Although the IAEA says it continues to verify the non-diversion of
Iran’s nuclear material, the UNSC has already imposed three rounds of
sanctions on the country.

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