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Obama preparing additional sanctions for Iran other than UN's | The Obama administration has reportedly been preparing additional ways of sanctioning Iran for its pursuit of nuclear weapons, ABC News has learned. For months, officials of the Obama administration have been assiduously lobbying
the leaders of other nations to join the U.S. on a bilateral or multilateral level
in possibly imposing various new sanctions on, say, Iran's financial sector, or
its petroleum sector, outside the auspices of the United Nations Security Council.
Officials cautioned that the official decision to pursue sanctions has not yet
been made, that sanction efforts outside the UN would be several months away,
and that emphasizing them revealed a far more pessimistic view of developments
than they currently hold. Iran may ultimately choose to work with the international
community, officials said, and if it does not the Security Council might either
decide to pursue new sanctions or toughen up the current sanctions on Iran --
which have imposed an arms embargo, banned the travel of Iranian officials working
on the nuclear program, and prohibited certain financial transactions. "There
are sanctions that are available, that are on Iran right now," State Department
spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters today. "We will continue to look at ways
both bilaterally and multilaterally that we can... add to that mix and increase
the cost to Iran of its inability or unwillingness to resolve the concerns the
international community has about its nuclear program," he added. ABC News also
quoted European sources as saying that European nations are beginning to explore
sanctions on their own national levels and at the level of the European Union
because they recognize that the UN measures will likely not end up being tough
enough if and when they finally pass. President Obama has given Iran until December
31, 2009, to show progress in meeting international requirements that it end its
nuclear weapons program. |
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