BERLIN, Jan 22: The UN Security Council’s permanent members and Germany agreed on Tuesday on a new draft resolution on sanctions against Iran, strengthening existing measures over the country’s refusal to suspend its nuclear programme, officials said.

“We are united in the assessment that a nuclear armament of Iran would have dramatic consequences for the Middle East and even beyond,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after meeting his counterparts from the US, France, Britain, Russia and China.

“So we are and remain agreed that we must and will continue to work, together and with determination, to ensure that it does not happen.”—AP

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