EU drops bid to refer Iran case to UN

[CHIMO]

The European Union has backed off from its attempt to have Iran immediately called before the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme, due to fierce opposition from Russia and China, diplomats said.

Several diplomats from the European Union's Big Three - France, Britain and Germany - said on Thursday they had dropped the demand in the interest of getting a unanimous resolution approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors, which is meeting this week.

Iran's official Irna news agency also confirmed this, citing Germany's ambassador to the IAEA, Herbert Honsowitz, as saying: "The EU has withdrawn its request to send Iran's case to the Security Council."

The EU earlier in the week had been calling overtly for Iran's immediate referral to the council over nuclear activities the US claims hide weapons work.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C48E2710-F0B4-4563-BFC4-9125C02E5DDE.htm

[tainowarrior]

1. haha

got punked by China and Russia.

About time those two big boys started flexing some muscles. I'm so tired of seeing the U.S. get away with highway murder in foreign lands.

[VegasWolf]

2. Didn't Bush just say two days ago that Putin was going to back him

over this? I guess Bush must have misread Putin's soul.