The board of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency censured Iran on Friday, with 25 nations supporting a resolution demanding that Tehran close a recently acknowledged nuclear facility, according to the
Associated Press.
Iran was defiant, however, with an official saying that his country would resist such pressures, including the "threat of military attack." Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's chief delegate to the IAEA, said during the board's meeting: "Neither resolutions of the board of governors nor those of the United Nations Security Council . . . can interrupt peaceful nuclear activities in Iran, even a second."
The resolution was endorsed by the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, which have rarely been unified in opposition to Iran. Though Iran insists that it is building a peaceful nuclear energy program, the U.S. and other nations believe it intends to create nuclear weapons.
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