IAEA Votes to Censure Iran for Nuclear Defiance

[icecoolben]

Not just india, russia and china too voted against Iran.

we had already stated during the first vote in 2006 itself that though v endorse Iran's right to civilian nuclear energy, v do not want another state such as Iran with nuclear weapons and that Iran must comply and clarify the international community's suspicions. Voting against the resolution now or abstaining would only degrade our previous legitimate stand.

Further, centrifuge technology had been proliferated by Pakistan and thus abstaining could deny us a reason to prosecute pakistan on its charges.

After such a long time, the International community has come together on this vital resolution, and Indian should not be the one who played spoil sport.

I have sympathies for the Iranians though though governed by hardlines, nuclear energy is an iranian right as a npt signatory. Considering this a 'Iran with p5 + India' initiative, similar to north korea hosted by India could have brought a true breakthrough.

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[AirforcePilot]

then what about pak, did it abstain or vote against.

Those who voted against the censure measure — Venezuela, Malaysia, and Cuba. The six countries that abstained from today's vote were Afghanistan, Brazil, Egypt, Pakistan, South Africa, and Turkey.

 

[enlightened1]

Those who voted against the censure measure — Venezuela, Malaysia, and Cuba.

Yeah yeah Ahmadinejad & his homies..

The six countries that abstained from today's vote were Afghanistan, Brazil, Egypt, Pakistan, South Africa, and Turkey.

damn what happened to the muslim brotherhood? couldn't make up their mind i guess...or maybe Hilary made a phone call.

 

[Yusuf]

LF,
Iran going out of the NPT will only further enforce international view that irans nuke program is not civilian but strategic. That would be a mistake on it's part as it will shut the diplomatic route to resolve this issue an most certainly invite a military action from the US and israel.

Iran is isolated in this issue. No one wants another nuke state and a rogue one at that. Iran has certainly not helped it's self by playing hide and seek with the internationalcommunity on it's nuke program. If it was clean about it's intentions, then it would have li Ed up to it's obligations under NPT and not ran secret programs.