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The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose sanctions on Iran for failing to suspend its uranium enrichment activities.The Security Council adopted the measures under Article 41 of Chapter Seven of the UN Charter, which provides for sanctions but does not authorize military action.The resolution, drafted by Britain, France, and Germany, targets Tehran's nuclear industry and ballistic missile program.The council ordered all member states of the UN to prevent the supply, sale, or transfer of all material and technology which could contribute to Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.The U.S. and its European allies had been involved in intense diplomatic maneuvering for weeks to get the backing of Russia and China, who both have major commercial ties with Iran.This was the first-ever sanction resolution on Iran which is now one of only 11 countries in the world to be facing a UN embargo.The council gave Tehran two months to suspend its uranium enrichment activities and heavy water-related projects or face further measures.Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States are permanent members of the 15-member Security Council and have veto power.The council, currently presided over by Qatar, also includes Argentina, Denmark, Ghana, Greece, Japan, Peru, The Republic of the Congo, Slovakia, and Tanzania.
The Iranian Resistance’s President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, on Saturday welcomed the adoption of a resolution by the UN Security Council against the mullahs’ regime and called it the first necessary step towards preventing the ruling religious fascism in Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. She reiterated that giving more time to the terrorist mullahs will bring them a step closer to obtaining a nuclear bomb. She called on the UN Security Council to ignore the mullahs’ threats and blackmail and impose comprehensive arms, technological, diplomatic and oil sanctions against the regime.Mrs. Rajavi added that the clerical regime's nuclear projects were completely against the interests of the Iranian people and that an absolute majority of Iranians supported the imposition of comprehensive sanctions.She emphasized that, contrary to the mullahs' claims, the regime is extremely vulnerable to such sanctions. Mrs. Rajavi said that the regime was weak and engulfed in internal turmoil but had benefited from the West's policy of indulgence. Mrs. Rajavi concluded that the effective solution to the present crisis in Iran was democratic change by the Iranian people and their Resistance. The Iranian people have demonstrated the desire for change through increasing protests against the ruling religious fascism. Therefore, in addition to sanctions, a correct policy vis-à-vis the Iranian regime requires lending support to the Iranian people and their Resistance as they strive to bring about democratic change in Iran.
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Iranian authorities have hanged three men in the south-western city of Ahwaz, state-run press reported on Thursday.The three men, who were not identified by name, were hanged on Tuesday, the daily Tehran Emrooz wrote.They were accused of taking part in a recent spate of bombings in the restive city and charged with "acting against national security" and being a mohareb, a religious term that describes someone who wages war on God.In the past, Iran’s judiciary has executed political opponents of the Islamic Republic on the charge of being a mohareb.Earlier this year, two other Iranian Arabs were hanged for their alleged role in the bombings.Ahwaz, provincial capital of Khuzistan, is home to Iran’s ethnic Arab population and has been a hotbed of anti-government demonstrations.The latest hangings bring to at least 12 the number of officially-reported executions carried out this week.
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Nine men were hanged in Iran, state media reported on Wednesday.Six of the men were hanged at dawn in Tehran, while another three were hanged in public in the town of Rafsanjan, southern Iran.The men hanged in Rafsanjan, identified as Gholam Hazrat, Nour Ahmad, and Shah Mir, were of Afghan origin, the daily Tehran Emrooz wrote. The hangings took place in public on Monday. They were accused of rape.The government-run news agency Fars separately reported that six men were hanged at dawn on Wednesday in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison.The men were only identified by their first names Hassangholi, Hossein, Kheyrollah, Mohammad-Hadi, Vahid, and Yadollah.The report said that Vahid was a 22-year-old Afghan.All six men were accused of separate murders.
