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Article: No legal basis for new UN sanctions against Iran: spokesman
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 23, 2008
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No legal basis for new UN sanctions against Iran: spokesman
TEHRAN, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Iranian government spokesman Gholam-
Hossein Elham said on Saturday that there is no legal basis for new
UN Security Council sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.
He made the remarks one day after International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei circulated his
latest report on Iran's nuclear program to the Agency's Board of
Governors.
What was said in the report once more indicated that "referringof
Iran to the UN Security Council was a political move which lacked
legal basis," the official IRNA news agency quoted Elham assaying.
Elham reiterated that Tehran believed ...