Courtesy of Fox News:

By James Rosen

EN ROUTE TO THE UNITED STATES — Warning of a “slow erosion of the credibility of the international community,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice challenged the other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to take action against Iran if it does not reverse its nuclear program in the next few weeks.

“Without some movement forward, I think the international community would be rightly asked: How long before there is going to be a consequence for Iran continuing to ignore the demands of the international community?” Rice told reporters aboard her plane en route to Washington after attending the London Conference on Afghanistan.

Rice’s comments came the day after she and her counterparts on the Security Council ended a four-hour negotiating session — at 1 a.m. local time — in unanimous agreement that they should vote in concert to support the referral, or “reporting,” of Iran’s case to that body. That is expected to come at Thursday’s special session in Vienna of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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