Ali Khorram

TEHRAN, Dec. 28 -- International affairs analyst Ali Khorram said here on Wednesday that UN Security Council members will not need a new resolution to increase their political and economic pressure on Iran in 2007.

The Security Council voted on Saturday to impose its first ever sanctions on Iran’s trade in nuclear materials and technology.

“The Security Council members will follow their objectives through the recent resolution because all the parts that it was said Russia was trying to exclude from the resolution over the past two months have been covertly included in the text,” Khorram told the Mehr News Agency.

“In this resolution, Iran has been treated like a country that possesses nuclear weapons, which is something we should be sensitive about,” he added.

The Security Council deceitfully announced that the sanctions are not meant to pressure the Iranian people, and, unfortunately, Iranian officials also say that the sanctions will not influence anything, he stated.

Iran’s parliament on Wednesday approved a bill obliging the government to “revise its cooperation” with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in response to the sanctions imposed on Tehran.

“The resolution de facto deprives Iran of technical and scientific cooperation with the IAEA except in the medical and agricultural spheres. Therefore, we will not have permission to conduct modern nuclear research,” the analyst noted.

Resolution more complicated than it appears

International law expert Yusef Molaii called the resolution one of the Security Council’s most complicated, technical, and important resolutions ever.

“The resolution is arranged in a way that makes it open to various interpretations, and thus more restrictions will be imposed on Iran than what the resolution shows on its surface,” Molaii told MNA on Wednesday.

This situation will give many countries a free hand to deliver selective exports to Iran and put economic pressure on the country, he added.

The resolution will also discourage many countries from signing agreements with the Islamic Republic to avoid trouble, he added.

Under the UN resolution, a sanctions committee will be set up by the Security Council to monitor Iran and collect information from countries about their trade with Iran.

“The establishment of such a committee in the Security Council is very rare and important. It is a sign of serious determination to ensure that the resolution will be enforced,” he said, adding, “It proves that the resolution is not just a scrap of paper.”

The list of the people, institutions, and organizations related to Iran’s nuclear program that is attached to the resolution is very extensive and could be used to impose many limitations on the country’s industries, Molaii said.