Sanctions deadline for Iran: End of 2009

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC)–The White House has said that Iran had to give up its nuclear ambitions in the next month or face new sanctions. “Time is running out,” Spokesman Robert Gibbs said at a news conference. “That deadline is the end of the year.” The Iranian regime maintains it is enriching uranium to generate electricity, but has resisted a deal with Western countries that would send its low-enriched uranium abroad for processing into nuclear fuel.

Gibbs said it was “pretty clear” that the Iranians were backing out of their original agreement to that arrangement, which was brokered by the International Atomic Energy Agency, in October. Last week, Iran vowed to construct ten new uranium enrichment plants, after the IAEA’s Board of Governors had condemned it for secretly building a second one.

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