The government of Iran continued to defy the United Nations today as they broke the seals placed on their nuclear facility by the international organization eight months ago and resumed full scale operations at its uranium conversion plant on Wednesday. The United States and United Nations are fearful that the plant will lead to the production of nuclear weapons by the Iranian government.
The European Union has tried to get Iran to limit its uranium enrichment plan by offering economic incentives. The hard-line Iranian government rejected that proposal.
The U.S. may try to get a U.N. resolution against Iran for its refusal to stop its nuclear program but China and Russia, two countries with close ties to Tehran, may opt to veto any proposed sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Matthew Boland, a spokesman for the U.S. mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), described the breaking of the seals as 'yet another sign of Iran's disregard for international concerns.'
'We strongly support (Germany, Britain and France's) efforts to convince Iran to stop its dangerous activities,' he said.
Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he was willing to resume negotiations with the European Union and would shortly set forth his own proposal. That proposal has yet to be received.
President Bush has expressed concern in the past that Iran should not develop or possess nuclear weapons. Bush included Iran in his 'axis of evil' shortly after the September 11 attacks along with North Korea and Iraq. While the president has been busy attacking Iraq, which had no weapons of mass destruction, both Iran and North Korea have advanced their nuclear capabilities and North Korea claims to possess nuclear warheads.
The United States has yet to determine what its next move will be if Iran continues to convert uranium.
