Iran nuclear report could trigger UN sanctions
A report today from the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, could trigger UN sanctions on Iran by confirming that Tehran has defied a Security Council demand that it freeze uranium enrichment.
Iran could theoretically still announce a full stop to enrichment before today’s ultimatum set by the Security Council.
But that appeared unlikely, considering Tehran’s past refusal to consider such a move, and findings by the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was enriching small quantities of uranium as late as Tuesday.
Iran’s refusal to heed the Security Council will be detailed in the IAEA report and circulated among the Vienna-based agency’s 35 board member nations along with new details on Tehran’s research into advanced enrichment equipment and other details, said diplomats accredited to the agency.
With the report scheduled to go to the Security Council, it could open the path to active consideration of economic and political sanctions because the council had set an August 31 deadline for Iran to freeze such activities and asked for the agency to report on compliance.
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