WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rebuke of Tehran, President Bush said Saturday's long-sought vote to send Iran's nuclear case before the U.N. Security Council sends a clear message that the world will not permit the Iranian regime to gain nuclear weapons.
"The path chosen by Iran's new leaders — threats, concealment, and breaking international agreements and IAEA seals — will not succeed and will not be tolerated by the international community," Bush said in a statement the White House issued Saturday at the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he is spending the weekend.
"The regime's continued defiance only further isolates Iran from the rest of the world and undermines the Iranian people's aspirations for a better life."
The administration said the action gives Tehran one month to comply with the world's demands, but U.S. diplomats would not specify the penalties they hope might be imposed.

"I think we'll hold our fire," Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns told reporters.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a resolution that Iran's nuclear program may not be "exclusively for peaceful purposes." Iran promptly said it would resume uranium enrichment at its main plant instead of in Russia.

The United States is convinced that Iran is concealing its ambitions to build a bomb and has favored sending the matter to the Security Council option for almost three years.

Bush said the United States expects the Security Council "to add its weight" to the IAEA's calls on the Iranian regime to suspend all enrichment and reprocessing activity, cooperate fully with the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog and return to negotiations with Great Britain, France and Germany.

He said the vote by the IAEA board did not mark the end of diplomacy, but the beginning of an intensified diplomatic effort to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

"Those steps are necessary for the regime to begin to restore any confidence that it is not seeking nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian program," he said.

Aside from his message to the Iranian government, Bush told the Iranian citizenry that the IAEA vote is not about trying to deny them from having a civil nuclear energy program, but was solely to prevent their leaders from acquiring nuclear weapons.

"Iran's true interests lie in working with the international community to enjoy the benefits of peaceful nuclear energy, not in isolating Iran by continuing to develop the capability to build nuclear weapons," he said.

Washington cut diplomatic ties with Iran after militant students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and took Americans hostage. The Bush administration stood on the sidelines during intensive diplomatic efforts by European powers, Russia and others to avert what many nations saw as a showdown between old adversaries.

Continued provocation from Iran turned world opinion against it, U.S. officials said Saturday.

"The strong majority in favor of the resolution, representing all regions of the world, underscores the concern of the entire international community about Iran's nuclear program," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a statement.

"We hope the Iranian regime will heed this clear message," Rice said. "The world will not stand by if Iran continues on the path to a nuclear weapons capability."

The decision by the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board sets the stage for future action by the council, which has the authority to impose economic and political penalties.

Any such moves are weeks, if not months away. Two permanent council members, Russia and China, agreed to referral only on condition the council take no action before March.

The delay gives time for Iran's allies or others to try to intercede. U.S. officials said they will not stand in the way of new diplomacy.

"The challenge will be for Iran to choose diplomacy over isolation," Burns said. "It's got 30 days to do that."

The United States, which holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council this month, will circulate a report on Iran but not call for any discussion or other action until after a March 6 meeting of the IAEA, Burns said.

At that point, if Iran has not complied with the agency's demands, the U.S. or others would begin what Burns predicted would be a vigorous debate in the council. Although tough penalties are one option, the United States has said it is not seeking them right away.

"We're going to ratchet up the pressure step by step," Burns said.

The council could issue a non-binding statement, set up its own list of conditions for Iran to meet, impose some punishment right away or do nothing.

There is a strong distaste among some members of the council for broad and punitive penalties similar to those that contributed to a humanitarian crisis in Iraq when Saddam Hussein was president. China's U.N. ambassador said Friday that his nation is opposed to U.N. penalties as a matter of principle.

VAN (DIHA) –The torture to some youngs who shouted slogans after the pres statement made by People’ Initiative by the police caused reactions. The civil society organizations in Van made crime announcement about the polices in the Office of the public prosecutor.

In spite of the statements of the government as ‘ Zero tolerans to the torture’ the violent attitude of the police to the citizens had taken reactions.

Kicking the some youngs, who shouted slogans after the pres statement to protest isolation imposed on Kurdish peoples leader Abdullah Ocalan, by lying them on the ice by the police in the Sanat street had caused reactions in civil society organizations and political parties in Van.

After the incident the defenders of human rights had made crime announcement with a CD which has a pictures of the torture.

CHD: The police deviates from the laws

The chairman of the Van branch of the Modern Jurists the lawyer Murat Timur said that the statement by government as ‘ Zero tolerance to the torture’ is an empty statement which is proved by last incidence in Van. Timur said that by looking to the last incidences it emerges that all laws are pronunciations. Especially when looking at the last incidences two days ago the pres statement in the scope of expression freedon was not let. Neither in the constitution nor in the penal code there is such thing about taking permission for the press statement. Making a pres statement without taking permission is a democratic right. On the one hand the violation of freedom of thought and the practises which are not compatible with the laws. After the police paralyses the person he caught he should tell his legal rights. However the police kicks the faces of the person instead of telling them their legal rights. It was obvious here that the security forces had exercised violence to the people. Our expectation is a start of legal and executive procedure about charged officials, he said.

DTP: Democratic demands had been answered with lynche

Democratic Society Party Van city chairman Hasan Ciftci who stated that the police even does not let people to come to the party said that:

‘None of the practise exercised by the police is within legal context. It is not let to express democratic rights which are a part of freedoms of man. Democratic demands had been answered with lynche in the middle of the street. This is not practised even in the third world countries. The laws enacted within the scope of the laws of accordance with the EU were violated when the people of the region is at issue. But inspite of the all oppressions we will Express our democratic reactions in legal grounds, we will apply to legal ways about authorities.’

SIDDIK GULER

NCRI - A day after Iranian regime declared that the Russian plan for enrichment was dead because Tehran was reported to the U.N. Security Council, it announced on today that it would hold talks with Moscow on its plan.

Mullahs' Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters, "The situation has changed and we will attend talks with Russia on February 16."

Javad Vaeidi, deputy head of the National Security Council, said on Saturday there was "no adequate reason to pursue the Russian plan."

Earlier on Sunday, mullahs' president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brushed off the IAEA referral and said: "Issue as many resolutions like this as you want and make yourself happy. You can't prevent the progress of the Iranian nation."

Clerical regime's latest offer to reconsider Russian plan was seen as a clear turn around by the regime as it met with a degree of firmness by the international community on its threatening nuclear ambitions.

As it has been declared in the past 25 years by the Iranian Resistance, the fundamentalist regime in Iran only understands the language of force.

In a massage following the IAEA's decision to report mullahs' regime to the UN Security Council, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance called for immediate adoption of oil, weapons, technological, and diplomatic sanctions against the regime. "The only way to confront and thwart the mullahs' deceit and obfuscation is swift action and not to give them anymore time."

Ramping up the rhetoric against Tehran after the vote, President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the vote sent a "clear message" to Iran.