Australia stops shipment to Iran

For Al-Shorfa.com
2010-02-04

Australia has invoked a clause in that country's Weapons of Mass Destruction Act to stop three shipments to Iran, AFP reported Thursday (February 4th). The clause deals with preventing nuclear proliferation. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd did not clarify what was in the blocked cargo shipments, but an Australian paper recently reported that pumps used to cool nuclear power plants were ordered by Iran. "If you look at the threat to regional and global peace which Iran poses in its current nuclear weapons programme, there is no alternative other than robust international action including in areas such as this," Rudd told Australian public television.

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