3rd anti-Iran resolution adopted under US intensive pressure: MP
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Boroujerd, Lorestan, March 4, IRNA
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The United Nations Security Council adopted a third resolution against the people of Iran under extensive pressure of the United States, a senior parliamentarian said in this western city on Tuesday.
Speaking to IRNA, head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said that adoption of the anti-Iran resolution on Monday by the UNSC was "a worthless act resulting from US political efforts."
"Iran will not accept the third resolution, nor will it implement that resolution as it lacks legitimacy from legal aspects," Boroujerdi stressed.
The US made massive efforts to adopt the third anti-Iran resolution with the consensus of all members of the UNSC but Indonesia gave a vote of abstention to the resolution while Libya, South Africa and Vietnam voted for the resolution under strong pressures of the Western lobby.
South Africa, Vietnam and Libya voted for the resolution upon orders from their capitals and tried, in their addresses to the UNSC session on Monday, to express their dissatisfaction with adoption of the resolution.
However, Indonesia remained resolute in giving a vote of abstention.
It was even reported that French President Nicolas Sarkozy was assigned by his US counterpart George W. Bush to visit Johannesburg to force South African officials to vote in favor of the anti-Iran resolution.
Stressing that adoption of the resolution was a "political act without legal legitimacy," the MP said the resolution "is not legal as it ignored the latest report by the UN nuclear watchdog about Iran's peaceful nuclear activities.
On February 22 Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei released an 11-page report verifying Tehran's non-diversion from its civilian nuclear program.
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