Iran agrees for uranium exchange

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This is may be a possibility, not a sure shot. JP has its own way of putting the issues.

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Iran agrees for uranium exchange​

By JPOST.COM STAFF AND ASSOCIATED PRESS
17/05/2010 04:27


Turkish FM: Deal concludes 18 hours of talks.


Iran, Turkey and Brazil have reached an agreement Monday night on an uranium exchange deal, intended to ensure Iran's nuclear program is only used for civilian purposes and remove the need for additional Western sanctions on Iran, Israel Radio Reported.

According to Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, the compromise was reached after 18 hours of continuous negotiations, and a formal press announcement might be made on Tuesday Morning, when all details are finalized by leaders of the three countries.

In a related development, Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva met with Iranian leaders on Sunday, and called the relationship between the two countries “strategic.”

Speaking in defense of Iran’s right to “independently navigate its course” to seek development and improvement, Silva stressed that a peaceful nuclear research program was within Iran’s sovereign rights.

Silva, who is in Iran for the Summit of the Group of 15 developing nations, spoke following meetings with Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The Brazilian president went on to say that there were those who hoped his visit would fail.

Ahead of the visit, sources in the US State Department called Silva's visit the last chance for Iran to prevent the next round of sanctions against it. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton predicted that Silva's mediation effort would not succeed, saying new sanctions are the only way to bring Iran around to cooperation.

Brazil hopes to enrich nuclear material for Iran

The reported agreement is the result of Brazilian efforts to revive a previous UN-backed proposal, in which Iran would ship its stockpile of enriched uranium abroad to be processed further and returned as fuel rods that could not be processed beyond its lower, safer levels, which are suitable for use in the Teheran research reactor.

Iran initially accepted the original UN deal but then balked and proposed changes rejected by the world powers negotiating with Teheran.

Brazil may be hoping to supplant Russia in the original UN proposal as the state that processes the nuclear material for Iran.


Iran agrees for uranium exchange

 

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Brazil and Turkey Say a Nuclear Deal With Iran Is Near​

By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO and SEBNEM ARSU
Published: May 16, 2010


SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Brazilian and Turkish government officials said Sunday that their leaders had brokered a tentative compromise with Iran in the international standoff over Iran’s nuclear program, a development that could undermine efforts in the United Nations to impose new sanctions on the Iranians.

A spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry said that after 17 hours of talks in Tehran, ministers from Brazil, Iran and Turkey had reached an agreement on the “principles” to revive a stalled nuclear fuel-swap deal backed by the United Nations.

The spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the deal would be presented to the leaders of the countries for “final touches,” with a statement on the agreement expected as early as Monday. The exact terms, notably the amount of nuclear fuel to be swapped, were not revealed.

The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, canceled an official visit to Azerbaijan late Sunday and instead joined officials in Tehran in what was seen as a sign of progress in the talks.

The Brazilian and Turkish leaders have been trying to revive a deal reached last October in which Iran would ship much of its stockpile of enriched uranium abroad for further processing; the uranium would then return as fuel rods for a medical research reactor. Mr. Erdogan suggested to reporters in Turkey before leaving for Iran that the uranium swap could take place in Turkey.

In the months since the deal was first reached, Iran rejected and then accepted it multiple times, with different conditions. Its unwillingness to give a straightforward answer was seen by critics as a delaying tactic.

It was unclear Sunday whether the Obama administration, which has insisted on the need for new sanctions, would take any new iteration of the deal.

The original terms were considered attractive to the United States and its allies because Iran would have temporarily relinquished most of its uranium. Because Iran has produced more uranium since then, the deal would very likely be less acceptable today.

But the blessing of Turkey and Brazil for such a swap agreement could put the Obama administration in the awkward position of appearing to take an unreasonably hard line.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president, met three times on Sunday with Iranian leaders, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

A diplomat from the Brazilian delegation, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he remained “optimistic” that the leaders would announce a deal Monday that would avoid new United Nations sanctions.

The Brazilian delegation was scheduled to depart Tehran just after midday on Monday for a European Union-Latin American summit meeting in Madrid.

Mr. da Silva is trying to leverage his friendly ties with Iran’s government to help broker a compromise. Like Brazil, Turkey also has been seeking to draw Iran back to negotiations as pressure mounts for passage of another sanctions resolution.

American diplomats and the Russian president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, said last week that Brazil’s efforts were the “last chance” to avoid sanctions.

Iran has insisted that its nuclear work is intended only for peaceful purposes like energy production. But the United Nations nuclear monitoring agency has said that Iran has not cooperated fully with its investigation into whether the country’s program is also intended to develop nuclear weapons.

On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton predicted that Mr. da Silva’s mediation effort would fail. She said Iran could be forced to prove its nuclear program was peaceful only with a new round of United Nations sanctions.

“Every step of the way has demonstrated clearly to the world that Iran is not participating in the international arena in the way that we had asked them to do and that they continued to pursue their nuclear program,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters.


Alexei Barrionuevo reported from São Paulo, and Sebnem Arsu from Istanbul. David E. Sanger contributed reporting from Washington.



Brazil and Turkey Say a Nuclear Deal With Iran Is Near - NYTimes.com

 

[Jigs]

See all that was needed was diplomacy. Something the U.S. foreign policy failed at but Brazil and Turkey worked out while the U.S. was fumbling around trying to find more ways to sanction crap.

 

[Nima]

See all that was needed was diplomacy. Something the U.S. foreign policy failed at but Brazil and Turkey worked out while the U.S. was fumbling around trying to find more ways to sanction crap.

but here's the thing, Iran had already agreed on a fuel swap before, they just wanted to do it on Iranian soil and the Americans didn't agree.

I think either Lula or Erdogan (sp?) hit the table with a clenched fist and said we have to this! Lula badly needed this b/c he had gone out of his way to get smtg out of this. At the end it's about the oil and gas as well. Turkey needs natural gas and Brazil needs Iran's oil.
Lets see if the Iranian regime keeps its word this time.

 

[Jigs]

but here's the thing, Iran had already agreed on a fuel swap before, they just wanted to do it on Iranian soil and the Americans didn't agree.

I think either Lula or Erdogan (sp?) hit the table with a clenched fist and said we have to this! Lula badly needed this b/c he had gone out of his way to get smtg out of this. At the end it's about the oil and gas as well. Turkey needs natural gas and Brazil needs Iran's oil.
Lets see if the Iranian regime keeps its word this time.

Yes but the U.S. said our way or we will sanction you to death. They seem to think that works fine when a country doesn't do what they tell them to. That was my point

 

[Nima]

Yes but the U.S. said our way or we will sanction you to death. They seem to think that works fine when a country doesn't do what they tell them to. That was my point

I'm actually VERY SURPRISED that they agreed on a deal and still think the mullahs are gonna back out.
I mean there is nothing that Americans can do anymore in terms of sanctions. They have sanctioned every possible Iranian company to death, they don't do any business w/ Iran, they have stopped the world from doing business with Iran, they have put an embargo on weapons sales to Iran, Iran can't sell its weapons etc... What are they going to sanction!?
The next step would be to put the same sanctions they put on Iraq in the 90's and that would never happen in a million years with Iran so I don't know wtf is going on behind the scenes. The mullahs never gave a **** about these random *** sanctions.

If they back out Iran will loose Brazil and Turkey and they can't afford to lose them.

 

[Jigs]

I hope they don't. If they do i think things will turn bad fast.

 

[Kompromat]

I hope they don't. If they do i think things will turn bad fast.

It shows that how much a religious fanatic Iran counts on a Secular Turkey

Its not surprising to me at all , i knew that iran will transfer its nuclear assets to a nation they trust the most.

 

[Jigs]

European countries have said they are planing to still move forward with another round of sanctions. Just heard it on CNN.

 

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European powers skeptical over Iran-Turkey-Brazil nuke deal - Israel News, Ynetnews

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday that the United Nations' nuclear watchdog must be the first body to respond to Iran's agreement to send its nuclear fuel to Turkey for enrichment.

Kouchner cautiously welcomed Iran's agreement to send lightly enriched uranium to Turkey, but added that he had not seen the text of the accord.

"It's not up to us to respond, it's up to the International Atomic Energy Agency," Kouchner told AFP and Radio France Internationale.

The office of EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton in Brussels said the deal "does not answer all of the concerns" raised by Tehran's nuclear program.

Germany's Foreign Ministry responded that no agreement could replace the draft inked between Iran and the IAEA last October in which Iran would transfer its enriched uranium to France and Russia, where it would be processed into nuclear fuel rods and returned back to Iran to fuel Tehran's research reactor.

Davutoglu, Moutaki, and Amorim sign deal in Tehran (Photo: AP)

Western diplomats close to the IAEA pointed out that Western concerns were more to do with Tehran's nuclear enrichment program rather than its efforts to secure fuel for the Tehran research reactor.

Avoiding sanctions

The deal could allow Tehran to avert a new round of UN sanctions that have been for months at the center of tough negotiations between the global powers, but Kouchner noted that these talks had made progress.

"Some important progress has been made over the past two days on the UN resolution," at the Security Council, Kouchner added.

"I am happy that there has been this accord" between Iran, Brazil and Turkey, he said before praising "our Turkish and Brazilian friends who showed tenacity" in their talks with Tehran.

Turkey said there was no need for talk of further sanctions following the deal to ship the low-grade uranium to Turkey in exchange for nuclear fuel for a Tehran reactor.

Under the agreement, Iran will deposit 1,200 kilograms (2,640 pounds) of its lightly enriched uranium in Turkey within a month and would then receive 120 kilograms of fuel for the Tehran research reactor within a year.


Iran is already under three sets of UN sanctions for refusing to halt its uranium enrichment, which the West suspects is part of a covert nuclear weapons program. Tehran denies the claim and maintains its nuclear program is for peaceful civilian use.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said there was "no need" for further UN sanctions against Iran in light of the deal.

"This agreement should be regarded positively and there is no need for sanctions now that we (Turkey and Brazil) have made guarantees and the low enriched uranium will remain in Turkey," he said.

Both Russia and the United States had made it clear they considered Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's visit to Iran as Tehran's last chance to stave off a new round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear enrichment activities.

'Iran manipulated Turkey'

Officials in Jerusalem reported that they are studying the details of the Turkish-Brazilian-Iranian deal for uranium enrichment that was signed in Tehran. According to them, there is concern that the three-way agreement is only for show, and is non-essential.

The officials noted that the deal is being approached with skepticism in light of the Turkish and Brazilian positions towards Iran, as well as the need to prevent additional economic decline in Europe that could result from imposing sanctions on Iran.

A senior Israeli official on Monday accused Iran of having "manipulated" Turkey and Brazil over a deal to ship part of its low enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for fuel for its Tehran reactor.

"The Iranians have manipulated Turkey and Brazil," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

"The Iranians have already pulled off such a trick in the past - by pretending to accept such a procedure to lower tensions and reduce the risk of harsher international sanctions, then refusing to follow through," he said.

The Israeli official said the fuel swap arrangement would "radically complicate" efforts by world powers looking to rein in Iran's nuclear program by means of sanctions.

"It is going to be much more difficult for the United States or the Europeans to reject this arrangement because we won't be only dealing with Iran, which is much easier to handle, but with rising powers, such as Brazil and Turkey, with whom relations are very sensitive," he said.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Monday for fresh talks with major powers over the country's nuclear program.


"Following the signing of the nuclear fuel swap deal, it is time for 5+1 countries to enter talks with Iran based on honesty, justice and mutual respect," Ahmadinejad said. In addition, Iran announced that it would continue to enrich uranium to 20% on its own.

 

[Nima]

^^^^

these sanctions are irrelevant and don't work one bit!
At most Iran looses 30-50 billion a year. This doesn't concern the mullahs.

This is what will happen IMO.
In the coming week Iran will officially inform the IAEA that they're ready for the swap. Then Turkey will have to make arrangements with Russia and France as it can not enrich the fuel rods given to her by Iran. Then Iran will put conditions that France will not accept and everything breaks down.

 

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Major Powers Have Deal on Sanctions for Iran​

By DAVID E. SANGER and MARK LANDLER

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced an agreement on Tuesday with other major powers, including Russia and China, to impose a fourth set of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, setting the stage for an intense tug of war with Tehran as it tries to avoid passage of the penalties by the full United Nations Security Council.

The announcement came a day after Iranian leaders announced their own tentative deal, with Turkey and Brazil, to turn over about half of Iran’s stockpile of nuclear fuel for a year, part of a frantic effort to blunt the American-led campaign for harsher sanctions.

“This announcement is as convincing an answer to the efforts undertaken in Tehran over the last few days as any we could provide,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, describing the agreement as a “strong draft.”

On Wednesday, however, Russia seemed to strike a more ambivalent note when Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov released a statement expressing cautious support for the draft resolution, but stressing that it is far from completion.

He said there is a “basic understanding” of the new draft, but that it must be approved by non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. If Washington and its European partners proceeded unilaterally, he said, the proposal “would go beyond decisions agreed upon by the international community and would run counter to the principle of the supremacy of international law guaranteed by the U.N. charter.”

Mr. Lavrov’s statement said he “expressed concern” over this during a conversation with Mrs. Clinton on Tuesday night, and encouraged her to re-examine Tehran’s latest proposal to “help establish a favorable atmosphere for the resumption of political and diplomatic efforts to regulate Iranian nuclear problems.”

An official in the Russian Foreign Ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity under ministry rules, said Mr. Lavrov placed a call to Mrs. Clinton after learning of her announcement on Tuesday night. The official said Russia views Tehran’s proposal to enrich uranium in Turkey as very similar to a deal brokered in October by the International Atomic Energy Agency, but acknowledged that Washington is skeptical.

“Our position is, give them another chance,” the Russian official said. “We should take into account this demonstration of readiness by Iran.”

Several Iranian officials decried the move toward sanctions, saying it was an illegitimate attempt to thwart Iran’s negotiations with Brazil and Turkey and predicting that new sanctions would not pass the Security Council. Kazem Jalali, a member of Parliament called the push for sanctions “modern barbarism,” Iran’s semi-official FARS news agency reported.

Iran’s foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, told reporters during a trip to Tajikistan that there was “no chance” for another sanctions resolution, telling reporters “Let’s not take this seriously,” Reuters reported.

Even if the Security Council adopts the new sanctions, it is unclear whether the provisions — including a mandate to inspect Iranian ships suspected of entering international ports with nuclear-related technology or weapons — would inflict enough pain to force Iran to halt its uranium enrichment and cooperate with international inspectors. None of the previous three sets of sanctions passed by the Council during the Bush administration succeeded in their goal: forcing Iran to end its enrichment of uranium and to answer the many questions posed by international inspectors related to their suspicions about Iranian research into nuclear weapons.

Some of the toughest proposals were barely even discussed as the United States sought support from China, which is a major trading partner with Iran and has been the most resistant to new sanctions. Along with the Russians, the Chinese blocked any measure that would stop the flow of oil from Iranian ports or gasoline into the country. President Obama himself had raised the possibility of such sanctions during the 2008 campaign.

In the end, a deal was reached by the five permanent, veto-wielding members of the Council — the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China — plus Germany. They agreed on sanctions against Iranian financial institutions, including those that supported the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Members of the Guard Corps are responsible for overseeing the military aspects of the nuclear program and have assumed commanding roles in the broader Iranian economy.

The newest element of the sanctions would require countries to inspect ships or planes headed into or out of Iran if there were suspicions that banned materials were aboard. But as in the case of sanctions against North Korea, there is no authorization to board ships forcibly at sea, a step officials from many countries warned could touch off a larger confrontation.

Another new element bars all countries from permitting Iran to invest in nuclear enrichment plants, uranium mines and other nuclear-related technology. That appeared to be aimed at halting rumored Iranian ventures with Venezuela and Zimbabwe, or with companies in Europe.

The agreement came months later than the administration had hoped, and after a hectic week of diplomacy, capped by a last-minute phone call by Mrs. Clinton to Mr. Lavrov, to confirm whether Moscow was on board, a senior American official said.

The United States believed that it was close to a deal last week, said the official, who did not want to be identified by name while discussing internal negotiations. But it could not resolve the final points with Russia over conventional, nonnuclear arms sales to Iran, and with China over its energy investments there.

The American ambassador to the United Nations, Susan E. Rice, said, “We will seek a vote as soon as the conditions are right and Council members have had an opportunity to consider it.” Several officials said that moment would not come until next month, at the earliest.

Even if the proposed sanctions survive without being watered down, administration officials concede that they are unlikely to alter Iran’s behavior, unless they are combined with considerable additional pressure.

The previous three sets of sanctions were simply ignored by many of Iran’s trading partners.

The draft resolution faces resistance from Brazil and Turkey, which have seats on the Council and brokered the deal to transfer some of Iran’s nuclear fuel out of the country. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey sharply criticized the continued push for sanctions by the United States. Mr. Erdogan worked with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil to reach the accord with Iran on Monday.

Turkey and Brazil have considerable business dealings with Iran, and are seen as eager to flex their muscles on the international stage. The ambassadors from the five permanent members of the Council, speaking with reporters at the United Nations, said that they respected the compromise that the countries had reached with Iran but that it did not address their core concern: Iran’s continuing efforts to enrich uranium.

Li Baodong, the Chinese envoy, said the resolution should signal to Iran that it needs to cooperate with the United Nations’ atomic energy agency. “The purpose of sanctions is to bring the Iranian side to the negotiating table,” he said, while praising the initiative taken by Brazil and Turkey.

Iran’s announcement that it would ship what is believed to be roughly half of its nuclear fuel to Turkey for further enrichment appeared to be a bid to undercut the American efforts to bring along China and Russia. The offer resembled an accord made with the West last October that fell apart when Iran backtracked.

Iran has said its nuclear program is for civilian purposes, but American and European officials have pointed to work that seems unrelated to simply producing power.

A senior administration official said that one of the most critical sections of the proposed sanctions was modeled on a resolution passed last year against North Korea, after its second nuclear test. That resolution authorized all nations to search cargo ships heading into or out of the country if there were suspicions that weapons or nuclear technology were aboard.

In North Korea’s case, there have already been some modest successes. In one case, North Korea sent one of its ships back to port, rather than risk having it boarded and inspected.


Reporting was contributed by Ellen Barry from Moscow, Neil MacFarquhar from the United Nations, Peter Baker from Washington, and Raphael Minder from Madrid.



Major Powers Have Deal on Sanctions for Iran - NYTimes.com

 

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Iran hits back as US snubs Brazil-Turkey nuclear deal​

By Farhad Pouladi (AFP) – 6 hours ago

TEHRAN — Iran voiced exasperation Wednesday at US-led international rejection of a hard-won nuclear fuel deal, saying major powers would be "discrediting" themselves if they pressed for fresh UN sanctions.

Washington on Tuesday announced that it would submit a resolution at the UN Security Council for a fourth round of sanctions, a day after the Brazilian and Turkish leaders forged a compromise agreement they hailed as a step towards a resolution of Iran's years-old standoff with the West.

Under the deal, Iran agreed to ship out much of its stockpile of low enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for fuel for a research reactor.

"(Talk of) imposing sanctions has faded and this resolution is the last effort by the West," the Fars news agency quoted Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, who also heads Iran's atomic energy organisation, as saying.

"We should be patient because they won't prevail and by pursuing the passing of a new resolution they are discrediting themselves in public opinion," Salehi said after a meeting of government ministers.

"They feel that for the first time in the world developing countries are able to defend their rights in the world arena without resorting to the major powers and that is very hard for them," he added.

The new draft resolution before the Security Council would expand an arms embargo and measures against Iran's banking sector, as well as banning it from sensitive overseas activities, like uranium mining and developing ballistic missiles, a US official said.

"The resolution would establish a comprehensive new framework for cargo inspections, both in states' ports and on the high seas," the official told journalists on condition of anonymity.

The draft has the blessing of all five of the veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council, including the usual standouts China and Russia, the US said.

"We have reached agreement on a strong draft with the cooperation of both Russia and China," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.

"This announcement is as convincing an answer to the efforts undertaken in Tehran over the last few days as any we could provide," Clinton added.

China's apparent backing of a fourth round of sanctions against Iran over its suspect nuclear activities came despite its earlier support for the swap deal.

"We attach importance to and support this agreement," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said.

The Russian foreign ministry spoke of an "understanding in principle... on the draft resolution".

But the Iranian atomic energy chief expressed doubts about the emerging international consensus against his country.

"We should be patient because they won't prevail and by pursuing the passing of a new resolution they are discrediting themselves in public opinion," Salehi said.

"I think there are some rational people among them who will stop them from making this irrational move."

Clinton said Washington had raised "a number of unanswered questions" about the deal struck on Monday but welcomed what she called the "sincere efforts of both Turkey and Brazil," two US allies that are both non-permanent members of the UN Security Council.

Western powers suspect that Iran's atomic programme is a cover for a nuclear weapons drive, something Tehran strongly denies.

Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim insisted the new agreement "creates an opportunity for a peaceful negotiated settlement."

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged the world community to support the deal, which his foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, warned could be spoiled by talk of sanctions.

Already under three sets of UN sanctions over its defiance of repeated Security Council ultimatums to suspend uranium enrichment, Iran touted its agreement with Brazil and Turkey as a goodwill gesture that paves the way for a resumption of talks with the major powers.

Iran's archfoe Israel -- the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear-armed state -- is weighing a formal response to the deal, although a senior official accused Iran of trickery shortly after it was signed.

AFP: Iran hits back as US snubs Brazil-Turkey nuclear deal

 

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SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN STILL CONTINUES.
NEITHER ISRAEL USA AND EUROPE ARE HAPPY. THEY STILL FEEL THREATEN


Eu,usa,Israel should be eliminated.They piss the rest of the world so hard.

 

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UN Iran sanctions 'would bar Russian missile sales'​

(AFP)

PARIS — Proposed UN sanctions against Iran's nuclear programme would halt Russia's sale of S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Tehran, Western diplomats told AFP on Thursday.

Moscow had already agreed the sale of the missiles, part of an air defence system that observers say would endanger Israel or the United States' ability to carry out air strikes against Iranian targets.

But the delivery has been delayed by Western pressure, and would be forbidden outright if Washington convinces the UN Security Council -- including Russia -- to approve a new round of sanctions.

"The paragraph of the resolution on the ban on arms sale to Iran includes several categories of weapons, including defensive weapons," said one diplomat.

"If it's adopted, the resolution would include the Russian S-300s and would prevent these arms from being delivered."

Another diplomat, also speaking on condition of anonymity, agreed.

"The supply of the S-300 would indeed be prohibited by this text, if it is adopted in its current form," he said.

Diplomats said the text for new sanctions, designed to force Iran to abandon a nuclear programme that the West fears will lead it to build nuclear arms, had been broadly agreed.

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - are now discussing appendices to the text that will go before the full body, they said.

According to a copy of the draft, seen by AFP, the sanctions would ban the sale of tanks, armoured fighting vehicles, large calibre artillery, war planes, attack helicopters, warships, missiles and missile defence systems to Iran.


AFP: UN Iran sanctions 'would bar Russian missile sales'