Shipment To Iran Halted

Banned cargo on the way to Iran is being held in the UAE. Resolution 1747 is here in pdf and concerns non-proliferation of nuclear materials. You can read about 1737 here, it too deals with nuclear proliferation.

In a further ratcheting up of the UAE's determination to curb misuse of its ports, an official there confirmed that the cargo, detained for testing last month, contained materials banned by UN Security Council resolutions 1737 and 1747, while the purchaser of the materials had also been barred by the same resolutions.

"The UAE wants to be seen to take action as they haven't been so proactive in the past on, for example, dual-use materials," says Neil Patrick, analyst for the International Crisis Group, a non-governmental organisation.

Comments

[Fred Beloit]

Interesting turn of events. Wonder if we will find out in detail what these materials are, who sent them and who was to receive them.

[IslamoLlama]

I guess all 16 US Intelligence Agencies forgot to check Iranian cargo imports that a UAE customs official easily spotted. Why aren't we just outsourcing our information gathering to UAE customs inspection agencies again?