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Iran media celebrate as IAEA resolution calls for no new UN sanctions

TEHRAN -- Iranian media on Saturday described a resolution from the U.N. nuclear watchdog expressing “deep and increasing concern” about the country's atomic program as a victory, celebrating the fact it does not call for new U.N. sanctions.

But Washington has already lined up new unilateral sanctions aimed at Iran's multi-billion-dollar petrochemical industry and will pressure its allies to follow suit, sources told Reuters.

“Additional sanctions put on hold,” ran the lead headline on Jomhuri-ye Eslami daily.

“Global opposition to U.S. nuclear scenario,” read Hamshahri.

“U.S. failure in IAEA's governing board,” said Qods, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution that Washington says upped pressure on Iran.

Russia and China signed up to the resolution calling on Iran to clarify questions over its atomic activities “to exclude the existence of possible military dimensions,” but they have resisted pressure from Washington for more U.N. sanctions.

Iran said the resolution had strengthened its determination to push ahead with the nuclear program it says is aimed solely at power generation and medical and agricultural applications.

Mohammad Javad Larijani, a foreign affairs adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, told PBS television Iran was “100-percent away” from getting nuclear weapons but aimed to have the hypothetical capability to make them as its nuclear know-how increases.

“If you ask in terms of capability, hypothetically, 'is Iran capable to do that if it decides?' Obviously yes. Any country who has nuclear technology is capable of doing that,” Larijani said, according to a transcript issued by PBS.

He cited Germany and Japan as countries that had no nuclear weapons but could make them in a matter of months if they wished and said Iran aimed to be more advanced than them.

Iran dismissed a report issued by the IAEA last week that included intelligence indicating Iran had worked on designing an atom bomb as “unprofessional, unbalanced, illegal and politicized,” and some Iranian lawmakers are calling for the country to stop all cooperation with the agency.

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November 21, 2011 bwmmiller@

Can China offer Thorium fueled LFTR reactors to Iran - energy from sand, and lots of it, and no plutonium bomb grade material whatsoever! U.S. proved this technology ages ago, sat on it, and the world has paid dearly for their indolence ever since. You Google, you see.