The UNSC approved the new sanction by 12 countries  in favor, Turkey and Brazil against and Lebanon abstaining.

June 09, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - The UN Security Council today passed new set of commercial sanctions on Iran’s military that supposedly serves as punitive measure against the country’s advanced nuclear program.

Since last year US began boasting about its ability to bring all world countries to agree upon imposing an all out embargo against Iran. But what Washington came up with this afternoon is just a symbolic way of telling the world about its growing helplessness on the international scene.  It isn’t yet clear why some US officials like to call these new sanctions significant but in all likelihoods, such minuscule sanction on a strategic country like Iran means very little. After the voting, US representative to the UN Susan Rice called the new sanctions as significant.

Following a 15-country vote, the UNSC announced a new set of measures against IRGC personnel including travel ban. It also hopes to stop transfer of high tech goods that might help the country’s further progress in nuclear technology. The UNSC approved the new sanction by 12 countries  in favor, Turkey and Brazil against and Lebanon abstaining.

Iranian President had already said if UNSC approves such measure it would have to forget about sitting down for talks. Many leading Iranian analysts now see the new sanctions as an opportunity for Iran to pursue its nuclear program even more robustly than before.