TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran on Tuesday dismissed the latest UN Security Council sanctions over its nuclear programme as "worthless", vowing to press on with the contested drive which the West fears could be used to make weapons.The Security Council on Monday imposed its third set of sanctions against Iran in the space of 15 months to punish Tehran's repeated refusal to suspend the process of uranium enrichment.
The resolution "is worthless and unacceptable and it is condemned", foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said in a statement quoted by Iranian news agencies.
"The continuation of this trend (of issuing resolutions) will have no effect on the Iranian people and the government's determination in seeking its legitimate and lawful right for peaceful nuclear activities," he added.
Iran had been hoping its ongoing cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog to answer questions about past areas of ambiguity in its atomic programme would mean the nuclear case would be taken away from the Security Council.
Officials have also repeatedly hailed the UN watchdog's latest report as a success for Tehran that "closed" its nuclear case, even though the body was unable to confirm the atomic drive was peaceful.
This is significant because it is about the nuclear program.
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