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Iran: UNSC sanctions history on repeat

Iran says accusations leveled against its nuclear program, which led to new UNSC sanctions, have stark similarities to those made about its oil nationalization in the 1950s.

Tehran’s permanent Ambassador to the UN Mohammad Khazaee said Wednesday that the UN Security Council’s decision to slap new sanctions on Iran brings back bitter memories from the early 1950s, when the United Kingdom argued that the “nationalization of Iran’s oil industry is a threat to peace and security of the region and of the world.”

“When Iran won the case regarding its oil nationalization in The Hague, the United Kingdom sold an anti-communist story to President [Dwight David] Eisenhower and the United States led a coup and reinstated and supported the shah’s dictatorship in Iran,” said Khazaee in a statement read to the 15-member council.

Khazaee was referring to the US-orchestrated coup against the popular and democratically-elected Iranian prime minister of the time, Mohammad Mosaddeq, whose efforts led to the nationalization of the country’s oil industry.

He further added that the UNSC verdict showed that history is repeating itself and Western policymakers will stop at nothing to advance their own political agenda under the pretext of promoting international peace and security.

The Iranian envoy made the claims after the 15-member UN Security Council (UNSC) put to vote a US-crafted resolution for imposing fresh sanctions on Iran over its uranium enrichment.

The session ended with Brazil and Turkey voting against the resolution and Lebanon abstaining from the vote.

Iran, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, says its nuclear program is purely civilian and directed at the peaceful applications of the technology.

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