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While the US and its allies use the threat of isolation to pressure Iran to limit its nuclear ambitions, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's tour of Latin America and Africa shows the Islamic republic does not lack friends. Today's paperRead the newspaper as it was printed
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Your View e-polls e-paper Subscription Weather RSS Feeds e-poll document.write(''); content = document.getElementById("pollcontainer").innerHTML; myReg=/Sorry/; myAr=myReg.exec(content); if (myAr == "Sorry") { // document.getElementById("pollcontainer").style.height="0"; document.getElementById("pollcontainer").style.display="none"; } document.write(''); Few options left for Iran after IAEA vote Last Updated: November 28. 2009 8:05PM UAE / November 28. 2009 4:05PM GMTHarsher sanctions, Mohamed ElBaradei cautioned a few weeks ago, would lead to a road he would rather not travel concerning relations with Iran. Citing the UN Security Council's sanctions on Iraq after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) argued that stringent economic measures often backfire because it is the people, rather than the government, who ultimately suffer.
But with 27 members of the IAEA rebuking Iran after its rejection of a proposal to enrich uranium abroad, Tehran might be already too far along on its own course to offer much of an alternative. The secret uranium enrichment site near Qom has provoked even China and Russia into a rare condemnation.Simply put, there are few options left on the table after the IAEA's vote last Friday. Tehran has consistently insisted that its nuclear programme is a peaceful endeavour, one that should be treated as a technical rather than political matter. Now that argument has been turned on its head. The member states of the technical organisation have voiced their misgivings and Iran is subject to their recommendations.
China and Russia's shift against Iran adds particular weight to the rebuke. As two of Iran's largest trading partners who have traditionally backed the country's right to peaceful nuclear research, their support has often buttressed Iran's resistance in the face of western opposition. But that support now seems to have been weakened.With this new resolution – the first that the IAEA has passed since 2006 – Iran will be forced to make a decision after having pigeonholed itself into accepting the authority of the IAEA. There is no other agency to turn to, no treaty to call upon. As stubborn a regime as it is, Iran must now accept the conditions it has created for itself or risk being discredited entirely in the eyes of the international community. While there is no guarantee what its decision will be, Tehran must now be considering the consequences of deepening its isolation.
document.write('');Mr ElBaradei will step down from his post at the IAEA tomorrow. It remains to be seen if his successor Yukiya Amano will share his views on sanctions. Regardless, however, it would seem that there is more than one change afoot at the IAEA.
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But with 27 members of the IAEA rebuking Iran after its rejection of a proposal to enrich uranium abroad, Tehran might be already too far along on its own course to offer much of an alternative. The secret uranium enrichment site near Qom has provoked even China and Russia into a rare condemnation.Simply put, there are few options left on the table after the IAEA's vote last Friday. Tehran has consistently insisted that its nuclear programme is a peaceful endeavour, one that should be treated as a technical rather than political matter. Now that argument has been turned on its head. The member states of the technical organisation have voiced their misgivings and Iran is subject to their recommendations.
China and Russia's shift against Iran adds particular weight to the rebuke. As two of Iran's largest trading partners who have traditionally backed the country's right to peaceful nuclear research, their support has often buttressed Iran's resistance in the face of western opposition. But that support now seems to have been weakened.With this new resolution – the first that the IAEA has passed since 2006 – Iran will be forced to make a decision after having pigeonholed itself into accepting the authority of the IAEA. There is no other agency to turn to, no treaty to call upon. As stubborn a regime as it is, Iran must now accept the conditions it has created for itself or risk being discredited entirely in the eyes of the international community. While there is no guarantee what its decision will be, Tehran must now be considering the consequences of deepening its isolation.
document.write('');Mr ElBaradei will step down from his post at the IAEA tomorrow. It remains to be seen if his successor Yukiya Amano will share his views on sanctions. Regardless, however, it would seem that there is more than one change afoot at the IAEA.
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But with 27 members of the IAEA rebuking Iran after its rejection of a proposal to enrich uranium abroad, Tehran might be already too far along on its own course to offer much of an alternative. The secret uranium enrichment site near Qom has provoked even China and Russia into a rare condemnation.Simply put, there are few options left on the table after the IAEA's vote last Friday. Tehran has consistently insisted that its nuclear programme is a peaceful endeavour, one that should be treated as a technical rather than political matter. Now that argument has been turned on its head. The member states of the technical organisation have voiced their misgivings and Iran is subject to their recommendations.
China and Russia's shift against Iran adds particular weight to the rebuke. As two of Iran's largest trading partners who have traditionally backed the country's right to peaceful nuclear research, their support has often buttressed Iran's resistance in the face of western opposition. But that support now seems to have been weakened.With this new resolution – the first that the IAEA has passed since 2006 – Iran will be forced to make a decision after having pigeonholed itself into accepting the authority of the IAEA. There is no other agency to turn to, no treaty to call upon. As stubborn a regime as it is, Iran must now accept the conditions it has created for itself or risk being discredited entirely in the eyes of the international community. While there is no guarantee what its decision will be, Tehran must now be considering the consequences of deepening its isolation.
Mr ElBaradei will step down from his post at the IAEA tomorrow. It remains to be seen if his successor Yukiya Amano will share his views on sanctions. Regardless, however, it would seem that there is more than one change afoot at the IAEA.
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