Teheran dismisses UN decision as illegal

Teheran yesterday dismissed as illegal the UN decision to impose new sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend its nuclear enrichment and other sensitive activities.

It denounced the current and previous UN resolutions as violations of international law and said they only harmed the 15-nation Security Council's standing.

"The credibility of the Security Council ... is readily downgraded to a mere tool of the national foreign policy of just a few countries," Iran's UN Ambassador, Mohammad Khazaee, told the council before the vote.