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Iran

Asked if the Government was in favour of imposing sanctions on Iran, the PMOS said that it was important to recognise that this was a step-by-step process. The first important thing was to get people to recognise that there had been a development which the international community had to address as a whole. We were getting close to a consensus on that point. The second step was to start the process of agreeing that the best way to go forward was to refer the issue to the Security Council. Once you got to the Security Council, what you did then was another matter.

One particular measure in and of itself was not the aim of this process. Each measure had to convey to the Iranian Government the international community’s disapproval of its actions and its determination to increase the pressure on Iran to reverse its policy. We shouldn’t immediately jump to a specific measure but rather harness as much international support as possible behind slowly increasing the process of putting pressure on Iran. Iran was in a more isolated position today than it was last week. That was right and proper but was not the end of the process.

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