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2010-06-12 cnn

Today the United Nations Security Council voted overwhelmingly to sanction Iran for its continued failure to live up to its obligations. This resolution will put in place the toughest sanctions ever faced by the Iranian government. For years, the Iranian government has failed to live up to its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It has violated its commitments to the International Atomic Energy Agency. It has ignored U.N. Security Council resolutions. And while Iran's leaders hide behind outlandish rhetoric, their actions have been deeply troubling.

What is at stake today is the credibility of the Security Council, which has turned into the tool in the toolbox of a few countries that do not hesitate to abuse it when and where their interests required.

We are right here at the Hotel Tac. This is where investigators say the homicide occurred to Stephany Flores. The reason we are here is because there is going to be a reenactment of, legal official say. Law enforcement confirmed to us that it is normal procedure for a reenactment to occur, when someone has confessed to a crime. And it was confirmed to us that Joran Van der Sloot, in fact, during a 7-hour interrogation did confess to murdering Stephany Flores.

A helicopter, we shot down by the insurgents today in southern Afghanistan, four Americans were on board that helicopter.

When you put it into the bigger context, four Americans dead today, two killed in an IED explosion yesterday, seven killed in multiple attacks on Monday, that's 13, and we're only through Wednesday.