'Paralyzing sanctions' purged from Iran draft: Russia

Iran to defend rights if new sanctions imposed: Ahmadinejad
Tehran (AFP) June 4, 2010 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that his country will defend its rights even if a new sanctions resolution is imposed by the UN Security Council. "We are standing in the face of enemies. To defend the rights of the nation, we will pull out any resolutions from the mouth" of the enemies, the hardliner said in a speech marking the 21st death anniversary of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Last month the United States introduced a draft resolution to impose tough new UN sanctions on Iran for pursuing its controversial nuclear programme, saying it had the support of the four other permanent veto-wielding Security Council members, Russia, China, Britain and France. Iran is already under three sets of UN sanctions for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.

Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, also lashed out at arch-foes Washington and Israel over the bungled Israeli raid on a Gaza aid flotilla on Monday. "The US government should repent and know that such dead end positions of Mr (Barack) Obama will result in the end of the US government and so it should stop supporting the Zionist regime," Ahmadinejad said. "I am also telling the Zionist regime's leaders that 60 years of atrocities are enough and I am warning you that any new aggression means certain death for the Zionist regime." Animosity between Iran and Israel has worsened under Ahmadinejad who previously has said that Israel was doomed to be "wiped off the map".

by Staff Writers
Moscow (AFP) June 4, 2010
The new UN Security Council draft resolution against Iran contains no paralyzing sanctions and takes into account the interests of Russia and China, the Russian foreign minister said Friday.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said initial versions of the resolution did not suit Moscow and Beijing but the draft was changed as a result of intensive discussions between world powers.

"We excluded conditions aimed at imposing paralyzing sanctions and in the end the draft is focused exclusively on tasks of non-proliferation of nuclear arms," he said after talks with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi.

"As much as possible it takes into account the economic interests of Russia and China," he added.

Lavrov also said both China and Russia were against a "forcing" of the process of voting at the UN Security Council, so that non-permanent member states of the body could offer their opinions.

He said that work on the draft was now coming to an end, taking into account suggestions made by the states that hold a rotating position on the council.

China and Russia, permanent veto-wielding UN Security Council members, have traditionally acted to water down tough Western-sponsored resolutions against Tehran.

The positions of both countries in the Iranian nuclear standoff have usually closely reflected one other.

However Russia in particular has in the last months been increasingly open about its frustration with Tehran, prompting an angry reaction from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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