The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a new resolution on Iran, reaffirming demands it stop enriching uranium, but imposing no new sanctions. The text calls on Iran to ‘comply and without delay with its obligations’ under past resolutions and co-operate with the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA. Iran dismissed the move and said it would not stop enriching uranium, which it says is for peaceful purposes. Western nations suspect Iran wants to build a nuclear weapons capability. The draft was agreed after Russia said it would not support further sanctions. But Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, said the new resolution would cause ‘mistrust’ and would not help global peace and security. ‘These [resolutions] are not constructive,’ he told Iranian television. ‘What they need to do is to attract the trust of the Iranian nation through constructive co-operation and collective commitment.’ On Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned it would resist ‘bullying powers’ trying to thwart its nuclear ambitions. ‘Comply without delay’ The UN Security Council has already imposed three packages of sanctions against Iran for defying its calls to halt uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing and refusing to answer […]

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