Israel urges US to act alone, as anti-Iran bids fail
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:15:29 GMT
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Brazil to recruit support for international penalties on Iran.
美國國務卿希拉里克林頓正在巴西，招募國際對伊朗懲罰的支持。
As US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tours Latin America to recruit support for new international sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, Tel Aviv urges Washington to adopt Cuba-like embargos against Tehran.
正當美國國務卿希拉里克林頓遊遍拉丁美洲，去就核計劃招募針對伊朗的新國際制裁支持，特拉維夫敦促華盛頓採取類似古巴式的禁運針對伊朗。
Israel and the US accuse Iran of seeking nuclear arms, as Tel Aviv threatens to attack Iranian nuclear installations and Washington warns of keeping 'all options on the table,' including economic sanctions and military measures.
以色列和美國指責伊朗尋求核武器，特拉維夫威脅要襲擊伊朗的核設施，和華盛頓警告保持擺在桌面上的所有選擇，'包括經濟制裁和軍事措施。
Iran, however, says its program, which is extensively monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is directed at the civilian applications of the technology. The country has also called on all nuclear powers to abandon atomic weaponry and eliminate all such arsenal.
然而伊朗稱其核計劃，它廣泛地被國際原子能機構（原子能機構）監察，是以民用技術作主導，該國還呼籲所有核大國放棄原子能武器和消除所有這些武器。
Clinton, meanwhile, is on a five-day tour of Latin America. She was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that Washington is working "expeditiously and thoroughly" to rally support for new Iran sanctions.
She has arrived in Brazil, a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (UNSC), to win support for the sanctions. Brazil has repeatedly said that Iran is entitled to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.
Although the IAEA says it continues to verify the non-diversion of Iran's nuclear material, the UNSC has already imposed three rounds of sanctions on the country.
Amid the intensified efforts by the US to impose fresh sanctions, China has appeared to reject the calls to support such a measure. Beijing argues that more negotiations are required to resolve the nuclear issue.
Israel, meanwhile, said Tuesday that the US should impose unilateral sanctions on Iran to isolate the country the same way it acted alone on Cuba 50 years ago, Reuters reported.
"We are a little worried by the pace of developments in the international arena," Lieberman told reporters. "I think that from now on Israel should perhaps change its Iran policy a little, and we should ask the United States to adopt the Cuban model ... Here the United States alone can do everything in order to stop this (Iranian) program."
Iranian officials have argued that favorite US pressure tactics such as sanctions are outdated and no longer relevant in the global economy as they have been proven futile in the last three attempts against the Islamic Republic. They insist that imposing new sanctions on Iran will further expose the irrelevancy of the UN as a viable international body.
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美國尋求獲得中國的支持針對伊朗
US seeks to gain China's backing against Iran
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:16:14 GMT
US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg
美國副國務卿詹姆斯斯坦伯格
Following unsuccessful anti-Iran campaign in Latin America and the Middle East, the US is now sending emissaries to China to win Beijing's support in pushing through a UN Security Council resolution for international sanctions against Iran.
繼在拉丁美洲和中東的不成功反伊朗運動後，美國現正派出使者到中國，以贏得北京的支持去推動通過聯合國安理會決議，對伊朗的國際制裁。
Two top US diplomats arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a visit that will, among other things, focus on persuading China to cooperate in imposing embargoes against Iran.
Washington hopes that the visit to China by US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and the National Security Council's Senior Director for Asian Affairs Jeffrey Bader will also help in easing trade tensions with the Asian power.
Steinberg will be the most senior US diplomat to visit Beijing since a wave of disputes erupted between the two governments in recent months over Internet issues, trade, and US arms sales to Taiwan.
“We've gone through a bit of a bumpy path here, and I think there's an interest both within the United States and China to get back to business as usual as quickly as possible,” US State Department spokesman told reporters in Washington on Monday.
Philip Crowley also asserted that Iran would be on the agenda of the talks between US officials and their counterparts in Beijing.
China, as well, seems interested in lowering the temperature of friction with the United States, a key trade partner.
Beijing has not yet acted on its threat to sanction US companies involved in the Taiwan arms sales. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said recently that he wants to ease trade tension with the United States.
The United States and other Western powers want China's backing for a proposed UN resolution slapping new sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program.
Analysts and officials say that China will resist any proposed sanctions that would threaten the flow of oil to China and Beijing's investments in Iran, but most believe that the veto-wielding member of the Security Council will accept a rather narrowly-cast resolution that has a more symbolic than practical impact.
China, which has large-scale trade and investment ties with Iran, has so far resisted US pressure over the issue, stressing that the matter must be resolved diplomatically.
China could use its veto power as a permanent member of the UN Security Council to block any proposed resolution.
Iran has repeatedly objected to what it describes as the unfair privileges that a few states have at the UN Security Council that allows some powerful countries to act above the law.
The US and its allies accuse Tehran of following a military agenda under its civilian nuclear program, although the UN nuclear watchdog inspectors stationed in Iran have not been able to substantiate such claims.
Under pressure from Washington, the UN Security Council has already passed a number of resolutions against Iran with the aim of restricting its nuclear activities.
Iran, however, has disregarded the motions, arguing that the resolutions are in direct contradiction with International Atomic Energy Agency regulations, which clearly state that all countries are entitled to enrich uranium as part of a peaceful nuclear program.
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