Eye On Iran: U.N. Is Set to Vote on Iran Sanctions

For continuing coverage follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook group. Top Stories NYT: "The United Nations Security Council is scheduled on Wednesday to impose new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, taking aim at the financial might of the Revolutionary Guards Corps as well as Iran's military and nuclear industries with the addition of 41 enterprises to the blacklist." http://nyti.ms/cPkPGc WP: "A year ago, Iran was on its way to becoming a pariah state. Dozens of governments accused Iranian leaders of stealing the presidential election and condemned the brutal crackdown on protesters that followed. The country faced sanctions and international scorn over its controversial nuclear program." http://bit.ly/9PXuNJ AP: "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says proposed new U.N. sanctions against Iran's suspect nuclear program will be the toughest ever adopted. Clinton told reporters in Ecuador's capital Tuesday that there is strong support for a fourth resolution penalizing Iran for refusing to prove its nuclear program is peaceful and defying international demands to halt uranium enrichment." http://bit.ly/bTPbCH Nuclear Program NYT: "Leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran convened at a security summit meeting in Istanbul on Tuesday in a display of regional power that appeared to be calculated to test the United States just one day before a scheduled American-backed debate in the United Nations Security Council on imposing tighter sanctions over Iran's nuclear program." http://nyti.ms/bKvZ6c NYT: "During the many months China has wavered over whether to join the American-led effort to impose sanctions on Iran, Israeli officials have been waging their own quiet campaign to convince the Chinese that Iran should be punished for its renegade nuclear program." http://nyti.ms/doWZSG AP: "The U.S., Russia and France have replied to a proposal by Iran to swap some of its enriched uranium for reactor fuel, effectively dismissing the idea hours before an expected U.N. Security Council vote Wednesday on new sanctions against Iran, diplomats said." http://bit.ly/cDOKzt WP: "A Montgomery County man who was president of a Maryland-based satellite company has been accused of illegally providing technology to his native Iran that resulted in the 2005 launch of an Iranian satellite, equipped with a camera, federal authorities in Maryland said Tuesday." http://bit.ly/bTPbCH LAT: "The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote on a resolution to impose additional sanctions over Iran's nuclear program. Meanwhile, Tehran makes diplomatic efforts to head off new penalties. With a critical U.N. Security Council vote looming, Western diplomats appealed to Brazilian officials Tuesday to drop their opposition to a new battery of international sanctions against Iran." http://bit.ly/dcKqqN CSM: "On the eve of an expected United Nations Security Council vote for new sanctions against Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned world powers against jeopardizing a one-time 'opportunity' to engage Iran on its nuclear program." http://bit.ly/9knJAt Reuters Q&A: "Here are some facts on that offer and why the West is treating it with skepticism and still wants to impose sanctions to squeeze Iran over the nuclear enrichment regarded as a pathway to weapons capability." http://bit.ly/b6Jta2 Human Rights AFP: "Human rights group Amnesty International called on Iran Wednesday to release or try on genuinely criminal charges hundreds of detainees still being held one year after a disputed presidential election sparked a wave of mass protests. The London-based watchdog accused the Iranian authorities of unleashing a 'campaign of fear' to crush popular opposition to the re-election of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a vote his main challengers reject as 'fraudulent.'" http://bit.ly/9mAp2v Opinion Amir Taheri in The Times: "Over the past three years, Iran's Khomeinist regime has succeeded in changing the traditional perception of Israel. Instead of Israel being the almost invincible enemy that crushed the Arabs in the Yom Kippur War and the Six Day War, it is now portrayed as a waning power, a small and vulnerable enclave that, having lost the support of its powerful protector, the United States, is facing the might of a resurgent Muslim world under Tehran's leadership." http://bit.ly/9E3ilG Barbara Plett for BBC: "After patient and persistent diplomacy and a few perks, Russia and China, Iran's powerful trading partners, finally fell into line. But divisions have emerged elsewhere in the Security Council, signifying concerns about a strategy that appears to stress pressure over engagement with Iran. The five permanent members of the Security Council - the US, Britain, France, China and Russia - plus Germany (the so-called P5+1) fear Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon." http://bit.ly/94b7Wo Eye on Iran is a periodic news summary from United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Eye on Iran is not intended as a comprehensive media clips summary but rather a selection of media elements with discreet analysis in a PDA friendly format. 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