Iran Whines About Sanctions But Vows Defiance

James Phillips / July 01, 2010

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki today insisted that sanctions would have little effect on Iran while his bombastic boss, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whined about the sanctions. Mottaki wrote letters to the foreign ministers of the fifteen members of the U.N. Security Council that criticized “the hasty adoption, at the insistence of America and its allies, of an unjust and illegal resolution against the great nation of Iran” and asserted that Iran is now “more determined” than ever to push forward on its nuclear program.

Mottaki, an active pen pal, also wrote truculent letters to European Union foreign ministers warning of “dire consequences” because of their decision last week to impose new sanctions on Iran, including bans on foreign investment in Iran’s oil and gas industries.  Mottaki insisted that the EU’s new sanctions “will definitely cause far greater losses for the European Union itself rather than for the Islamic Republic of Iran.” (more…)