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Bolton: Iran Working With A-Bomb Ingredients
"We would have liked to have seen (Security Council) action (on Iran) today. This will not go beyond next week." So professed one exhausted one U.S. diplomat as the United Nations Security Council decided to delay any action on Iran's nuclear activities until early next week, NewsMax's Stew Stogel reports from the world body. The Council, which has been "discussing" Iran's violations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) since receiving a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, the U.N.'s atomic watchdog) almost two weeks ago, has been at loggerheads as to what to do next. While the Council could impose military and/or economic sanctions, that effort seemed highly unlikely since Russia and China, two permanent Council members, could veto the action.
Story Continues Below The same two members also have nuclear and military advisers in Iran working on various projects, including a $6 billion nuclear power plant on the Persian Gulf coast nearing completion in the next few months. As such, both Moscow and Beijing have good cause to keep Washington, London and Paris at bay, especially as it regards any military or economic sanctions. The compromise is expected to come in the form of a Security Council presidential statement, which amounts to no more than a position paper by the U.N. body. While warnings and deadlines may appear in the final draft, it is still not clear what comes next. "We do not want to see American bombers flying over Iran," said Andrey Denisov, Russia's U.N. ambassador. While admitting that any military attack was not really in the cards, he did admit that Moscow was concerned about the White House's growing impatience. Meanwhile, Tehran, seeking to throw a new monkey wrench in Washington's face, has now offered to open a new round of talks with the U.S. on the situation in Iraq. When asked if the Iranians were engaging in stall tactics and attempting to exploit the splits in the the Security Council, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton told NewsMax: "If I were as near to Iran as Russia is I'd certainly want to get this resolved quickly. I think in the Russian nuclear Establishment, they know exactly what Iran is doing. ... Several countries said today the IAEA has sent this here for the Security Council to take action ... and that is exactly what we should do." Meanwhile, Bolton left the U.N. Friday night with an ominous warning: "The urgency of sending a clear and strong signal to Iran is certainly very much on our (the U.S.) minds, conscious as we are that the Iranian centrifuges are spinning with uranium hexaflouride in them ... (an A-bomb ingredient). ... That is a very serious matter." Editor's note:
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