US Senate Passes Resolution Against Iran's Nuclear Program
时间：2012-09-25 01:57:13
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US Senate Passes Resolution Against Iran's Nuclear Program
The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly approved a resolution that reaffirms U.S. efforts to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
The senators on Saturday voted 90-to-1 in favor of the non-binding measure, which they said should not be interpreted as an
authorization1 for the use of military force or a declaration of war.
The decision comes a day after Senator Joseph Lieberman, the head of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security committee, accused Iran of sponsoring cyber attacks against major American financial institutions.
The web sites of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup Inc. have been disrupted repeatedly over the past year due to a flood of incoming web traffic.
Lieberman told U.S. television network C-SPAN on Friday he believes that the attacks were carried out by Iran's Quds Force, a unit of its
elite2 Revolutionary Guards, not by
random3 hackers4.
He said he believes the attacks were a response to "increasingly strong" economic sanctions that the U.S. and its European allies have put on Iranian financial institutions.
The United States and several other Western countries have united to impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, which they suspect is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. Iran insists its uranium enrichment program is
solely5 for peaceful purposes.
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