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           US Senate Passes Resolution Against Iran's Nuclear Program

   by VOA News

   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 authorization
   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
   elite Revolutionary Guards, not by random hackers.
   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 solely for peaceful purposes.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.
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