US may add Iran sanctions
JTA, Nov 20 2008

The US will consider further steps to isolate Iran in the wake of revelations that it is close to manufacturing a nuclear weapon. State Dept. spokesman Sean McCormack said Thursday:

We will continue to look at ourselves — what further steps might be taken in the financial sanctions area to try to prevent, cut off that pathway for Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, and work with other countries to do that as well.

The NYT quoted nuclear experts as assessing that Iran had enriched almost enough uranium to make a bomb, based on the latest report by the IAEA. McCormack said that in the coming days the US would also press the IAEA and the UN Security Council to take further action based on the IAEA report. The latest IAEA report estimates that Iran has enriched 1,390 pounds of uranium.