Iran’s Nuclear Program and Chain UNSC Resolutions
By Mahdi Mohtashami
On Tuesday, White House threatened Iran with further sanctions if it did not stop its enrichment activities and U.S. alleged nuclear weapons program. Barack Obama’s spokesman Robert Gibbs added that America’s allies are serious about the head-on and time was running out for Iran.
Evidences signal that Iran’s nuclear dossier will once again fall at the hands of the United Nations Security Council. As the records show, IAEA resolutions are usually followed by UNSC resolutions when a dossier is referred from UN atomic watchdog to the Security Council. The big difference this time is that Five plus One has long planned for referral of Iran’s case to the council. Iran’s treatment of the nuclear dispute will affect future measures by the global powers in the upcoming days and months; however, new resolutions and further sanctions are not unlikely at all.
As the groundwork for new resolutions against Iran is laid, the United States is also getting prepared to impose new administrative sanctions against Iran unilaterally. The bill passed by the US Congress which allows the US president to punish companies involved in exporting refined petroleum products to Iran is the most prominent case, awaiting Obama’s approval. It seems that both Democrats and Republicans in the United States agree that the state should set further sanctions against Iran in addition to what the United Nations has approved.
China and Russia seems to be tacitly supporting a new sanction against Iran. As their diplomatic behavioral pattern illustrates, the two emerging powers always get on board at the last moments and support tougher measures against Iran. Vain hopes inside Iran that fantasize a multipolar world in which East stands against West should have vanished by now. The most China and Russia can do is to soften the resolutions tone, but their vote is in favor of a new bill for sure.
Chain resolutions against our country will have certain consequences. Politically, they will have undeniable impact on our ties with other countries. Economically, their deleterious effects on our international and domestic commerce should have been felt by now. It is still a question whether Iran yields to the resolutions and changes its nuclear course. So far, Iran has tried to defy the resolutions and counter their impacts.
Evidences signal that Iran’s nuclear dossier will once again fall at the hands of the United Nations Security Council. As the records show, IAEA resolutions are usually followed by UNSC resolutions when a dossier is referred from UN atomic watchdog to the Security Council. The big difference this time is that Five plus One has long planned for referral of Iran’s case to the council. Iran’s treatment of the nuclear dispute will affect future measures by the global powers in the upcoming days and months; however, new resolutions and further sanctions are not unlikely at all.
As the groundwork for new resolutions against Iran is laid, the United States is also getting prepared to impose new administrative sanctions against Iran unilaterally. The bill passed by the US Congress which allows the US president to punish companies involved in exporting refined petroleum products to Iran is the most prominent case, awaiting Obama’s approval. It seems that both Democrats and Republicans in the United States agree that the state should set further sanctions against Iran in addition to what the United Nations has approved.
China and Russia seems to be tacitly supporting a new sanction against Iran. As their diplomatic behavioral pattern illustrates, the two emerging powers always get on board at the last moments and support tougher measures against Iran. Vain hopes inside Iran that fantasize a multipolar world in which East stands against West should have vanished by now. The most China and Russia can do is to soften the resolutions tone, but their vote is in favor of a new bill for sure.
Chain resolutions against our country will have certain consequences. Politically, they will have undeniable impact on our ties with other countries. Economically, their deleterious effects on our international and domestic commerce should have been felt by now. It is still a question whether Iran yields to the resolutions and changes its nuclear course. So far, Iran has tried to defy the resolutions and counter their impacts.