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Iran Sanctions

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/middleeast/10sanctions.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
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  1. sanction
    official permission or approval
    U.N. Security Council Passes New Sanctions Against Iran
    By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
    UNITED NATIONS — The United States, moving firmly away from the Obama administration’s previous emphasis on wooing Iran, pushed through a new round of United Nation
  2. enrichment
    act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding
    The resolution contained the full text of a 2008 offer for increased civilian nuclear cooperation in exchange for Iran stopping enrichment.


    FOr nuclear fuel, enrichment is bring to bomb ready condition.
  3. negotiate
    discuss the terms of an arrangement
    The new sanctions, a modest increase from previous rounds, took months to negotiate but still did not carry the symbolic weight of a unanimous Security Council decision.
  4. Isfahan
    city in central Iran; former capital of Persia
    The sanctions ratchet up the measures previously taken against 40 individuals, putting them under a travel ban and asset freeze, but adds just one name to the list — Javad Rahiqi, 56, the head of the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center.
Created on 六月 9, 2010 (updated 六月 9, 2010)

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