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TEHRAN, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Defense Minister
Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said on Monday that UN Security Council's sanctions on
Iran's missile program are unimportant, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The new embargo on Iran's missile industry "lacks any
credit and importance," Najjar was quoted as telling senior officials of the
country's defense industries.
He added that the country's defense industries,
especially the missile industry, have reached the stage of self-sufficiency
thanks to the ingenuity and efforts of Iranian experts.
The sanctions will have no impact on Iran, but will
encourage and bring about "another wave of self-sufficiency" in the country, the
Iranian defense minister said.
The UN Security Council Resolution 1737, adopted
unanimously on Saturday, demanded that Iran "suspend all enrichment-related and
reprocessing activities, including research and development, and work on all
heavy water-related projects."
The resolution also called on all states to impose a
ban on trade with Iran in goods related to its nuclear programs and ballistic
missile delivery systems.
It demanded that "all states shall freeze the funds,
other financial assets and economic resources" owned or controlled by officials
and companies in the country's nuclear and missile programs.
Shortly after the UN Security Council voted
unanimously for the resolution, the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement
lashing out at the resolution as an "illegal measure."
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
delivers a speech in Tehran Dec. 24, 2006. He dismisses the newly-adopted
UN Security Council resolution that imposes sanctions on Tehran as a piece
of "trash paper." (Xinhua/AFP photo)
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TEHRAN,
Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday dismissed
the newly-adopted UN Security Council resolution that imposes sanctions on
Tehran as a piece of "trash paper," local Fars News Agency reported.
"Today they (the Western countries) just aim to scare
the Iranian people with this piece of trash paper," Ahmadinejad was quoted as
saying. Full story>>
Iran's official: UN resolution
"legally inapplicable"
TEHRAN, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- A senior Iranian nuclear
official has said that the UN Security Council resolution that imposes sanctions
on Tehran is "legally inapplicable," the official IRNA news agency reported
Monday.
The UN Security Council Resolution 1737 was adopted "upon
the decision of certain countries and is legally inapplicable," said deputy
chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Saeedi. Full Story
Iran to install 3,000
centrifuges
TEHRAN, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Iran says it will begin
installing 3,000 centrifuges at a uranium enrichment plant as of Sunday in
response to a U.N. Security Council resolution, the Kayhan newspaper said. Full Story
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