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The EU has formally agreed a new set of sanctions against Iran, including an asset freeze targeting the country's biggest bank.

The measures were finalized without debate at the start of a two-day meeting of EU ministers in Luxembourg.

The new sanctions include a freeze on assets and funds connected to Bank Melli, Iran's biggest bank. The bank, which has offices in London, Hamburg and Paris, will not be permitted to operate in Europe. It has been accused of providing services connected to Iran's nuclear program, and was placed on a US blacklist last year.

Other new measures include a travel ban on some experts dealing with nuclear work, with a full list of companies and people affected by asset freezes and visa bans to be published tomorrow. The move follows a series of sanctions imposed by the UN against Iran since 2006 in an attempt to persuade it to end a program of uranium enrichment.

Imposition of the new sanctions was delayed prior to a visit to Iran by the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana. Solana presented a renewed deal from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the US, involving helping Iran to build "light water" reactors and supplying nuclear fuel in return for a suspension of uranium enrichment.

Although the policy chief said on Friday that he was still awaiting a formal response, a spokesman for the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, last week rejected the conditions as "unacceptable" and "not debatable at all".
merasyad

7 responses // EU agrees to new Iran sanctions

  • What is that I hear? Tick-tock of the WWIII clock.
    J_Jammer
  • Sad, stupid, shitty, all the s words basically.

    I'm just so dumbfounded by this warmongering, I can hardly think of anything else to say.
    onechance
  • "...and supplying nuclear fuel in return for a suspension of uranium enrichment."
    Oh that's right, the ol' don't grow your own rice, buy our Chicago style ones.
    What's that, you can grow your own for chump change compared to our price, well though shit my friend, I'm-a gonna get some sanctions on your ass.
    _Hayko
  • Check this out.

    The problem western countries are having with Iran is not with any nuclear threat. It is because Iran is going to stop accepting payment for their un-replaceable commodity of oil with "dollars". If I want to go to Iran to buy oil, I will have to have my money exchanged for some other currency.
    cadsuch
    1 response to this
  • Simply put, "We will starve your people, destroy your economy, and block you from the world, if you don't give us oil NOW. no ifs, ands, or buts."
    littlesparrow
  • One Word: "GREED"
    WorldPeaceTV

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