UN approves new sanctions on Iran
"It calls for the foreign assets of 13 Iranian companies to be frozen, and imposes travel bans on five Iranian officials.
It imposes a ban on the sale to Iran of so-called dual-use items - which can have either a military or civilian purpose.
The measures are in a sense lowest common denominator sanctions that even China and Russia - who maintain closer links with Iran than the Western powers - would support, says the BBC's Laura Trevelyan at the UN in New York.
Both China and Russia are permanent, veto-wielding members of the Security Council."
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