AFP: Iran on Tuesday dismissed the latest UN Security Council sanctions over its nuclear programme as “worthless”, vowing to press on with the contested drive which the West fears could be used to make weapons.

AP: Russia and China on Tuesday scuttled a Western attempt to introduce a resolution on Iran’s nuclear defiance at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, diplomats said.

AFP: Canada’s foreign affairs minister on Monday praised the adoption of a UN Security Council resolution imposing additional sanctions against Iran for its refusal to halt disputed nuclear work.

Washington Post: The U.N. Security Council has imposed three rounds of sanctions against Iran in an attempt to curtail the country’s nuclear ambitions, but U.S. efforts to isolate Tehran through tough, broad U.N. resolutions have yielded relatively incremental measures that mainly target Iran’s most sensitive nuclear activities.

The Times: It is a diplomatic coup for those opposed to Iran’s nuclear ambitions to have managed to get such broad support for a third round of United Nations sanctions. The vote, of 14 members in favour, with only Indonesia abstaining, represented a triumph of bargaining over the past 72 hours and a clear rebuff to Iranian nuclear ambitions.

Washington Post: The United Nations imposed new sanctions on Iran yesterday, capping a year of difficult diplomacy that may represent the Bush administration’s final bid to mobilize international action against Tehran over its controversial nuclear program.

Reuters: A new round of sanctions imposed on Iran by the U.N. Security Council for refusing to suspend nuclear enrichment will not affect China’s trade with that country, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.