United States claimed Iran was now locked in "unprecedented" isolation

Iran's envoy to the United Nations Mohammad Khazaei said Friday that the US takes advantage of certain international organizations to exert pressure on the Islamic Republic.

The US uses every tool, including the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in its schemes against Iran, Khazaei said in an exclusive interview with IRNA in New York.

This comes as the United States claimed Saturday that Iran was now locked in "unprecedented" isolation after UN bodies overwhelmingly condemned its nuclear program and an alleged Tehran-planned terror plot.
  
US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon said that US policy to turn Iran into a “pariah state” was working and that Tehran was now crucially losing support from Arab and Muslim nations.
  
"It is the case I think, that the isolation that Iran is undergoing right now... really is unprecedented," Donilon told reporters in Indonesia on the final day of President Barack Obama's Pacific tour. "They see themselves wholly isolated."

"Thirty-two countries voted a resolution asking the Iranians to meet their obligations," Donilon, said, pointing out that the vote came after Obama had raised Iran in talks last week with the presidents of Russia and China -- which have expressed scepticism about more sanctions on Tehran.

Despite Washington's satisfaction at the new blows to Iran by the international community, the prospects for new UN sanctions remain unclear. Obama did not appear to make noticeable progress towards that end during his talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

The IAEA Board of Governors on Friday passed its new US-engineered resolution on Iran's nuclear activities in which it voiced “deep and increasing concern” over Tehran's atomic program.

To assuage Chinese and Russian misgivings, the UN resolution has no timeframe for Iran to comply, calling instead for IAEA head Yukiya Amano to report to the board in March on Tehran's "implementation of this resolution".

At the UN General Assembly on Friday, the Saudi resolution on the alleged plot to assassinate its envoy to Washington was passed with 106 votes in favor, nine against and 40 abstentions.

Khazaee criticized the resolution over Iran's alleged plot, saying it was based on "unsubstantiated claims" by the United States, which has a long history of animosity against Iran.