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The Bush administration said the United Nations Security Council must review Iran's nuclear record after a harsh assessment from its nuclear watchdog agency Saturday, and U.S. officials warned that Iran is losing the support of influential friends.
A majority vote against Iran at the U.N. atomic agency was an interim step toward what the Bush administration has long sought — review and punishment by the Security Council that would help derail an alleged secret program to build an Iranian bomb.
"We have a patient long-term strategy," Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said after the vote. "It's to isolate Iran on this question; it's to ratchet up the international pressure on Iran," and assemble the kind of global coalition against Iran that helped persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons last week.
