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| IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano attending a news conference in Vienna, September 10, 2012 [Photo: UNifeed] |
The resolution has expressed “serious concern” and global threat about Iran’s
continued “enrichment” of uranium and its heavy-water activities.
Only Cuba voted against the resolution. Three countries,
including Egypt, abstained, according to diplomats who took part in the
closed-door meeting at International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters
in Vienna.
The US envoy has accused Iran of “systematically
demolishing” Parchin facility.
Nations like United States, Israel believe Iran is intent on
building an atomic bomb. Tehran has said its nuclear board member nations, was
proposed by the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany.
The U.S. deputy ambassador to the IAEA, Robert Wood, said
the resolution steps up pressure on Iran.activities were purely for peaceful
purposes.
The latest resolution also calls on Tehran to let nuclear
inspectors into specific areas within the Parchin military complex, where the
IAEA suspects Iran conducted tests a decade ago related to nuclear weapons.
More than two-thirds of the IAEA's 35 have supported the resolution, passed by the UN nuclear agency.