Excerpts from previous status reports, by subject
Removed on December 12, 2006
Russia reacts to Europe's draft
resolution
By early December 2006, Iran’s pursuit of uranium enrichment, despite
U.N. demands, and its refusal to cooperate fully with the IAEA, had resulted
in no tangible consequence for Iran. Though
top
diplomats
from
the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany agreed on October
6 to pursue a sanctions resolution in the Security Council, progress
on the penalties to impose was slow. In November, Russia proposed a
series of amendments to a U.S.-backed draft resolution prepared by Britain
and France. The European draft ordered countries to stop supplying technology
and training to Iran’s missile and nuclear programs and to limit the
assistance Iran could receive from the IAEA to food, agriculture, medical and
humanitarian
programs. It exempted from restrictions the Bushehr reactor being built by
Russia, but not the nuclear fuel needed for the reactor. Russia argued that
all reference to Bushehr should be removed from the resolution and that sanctions
should target
only Iran’s
enrichment work. And while the European draft required Iran to suspend work
on the Arak heavy water reactor and to implement the IAEA’s Additional
Protocol, Russia’s amendments reportedly only called upon Iran
to suspend work at Arak, and only urged Iran to implement the Additional Protocol.
The European draft resolution also included measures to halt Iran’s ability
to finance and receive technical assistance for its nuclear and missile programs,
and to impose travel bans on and freeze the assets of individuals associated
with these programs—measures which Russia’s amendments removed.
Due to continued disagreement over this resolution, Britian and France submitted
a revised version on December 11.
Indian scientists sanctioned
Penalties for proliferation towards Iran were
also imposed by the State Department on September
23, 2004, notably against two Indian scientists, Dr. C. Surendar
and Dr. Y.S.R. Prasad. This marked the first time these individuals were
sanctioned by the United States for proliferation. The penalties against
Dr. Surendar were lifted on December 23, 2005.