{"id":522665,"date":"2010-04-10T01:12:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T05:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/russia-sets-limits-u-n-iran-sanctions-42104\/"},"modified":"2010-04-10T01:12:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T05:12:04","slug":"russia-sets-limits-on-u-n-iran-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522665","title":{"rendered":"Russia Sets Limits on U.N. Iran Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"
On 04.09.10 03:00 PM posted by James Phillips<\/p>\n

\n<ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/medvedev_081110.jpg">\"\"<\/p>The Obama Administration continues to talk up the prospects for strong U.N. sanctions on Iran at the same time that it is becoming increasingly clear the United States is unlikely to persuade Russia and China to approve anything stronger than a mild slap on the wrist for their Iranian friends. Yesterday President Obama said \u0093We are going to be pushing very hard to make sure that both <ahref="http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/08\/AR2010040803866.html">smart and strong sanctions end up being in place soon to send a signal to Iran and other countries that this is an issue that the international community takes seriously.\u0094<\/p>\n

But Obama\u0092s na\u00efve belief in the seriousness of the \u0093international community\u0094 was immediately contradicted by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who made it clear that Moscow sees things differently.*Although he agreed that nations should not \u0093turn a blind eye\u0094 to Iran\u0092s nuclear defiance, he indicated that Russia would not support sanctions that would punish Iran\u0092s people or encourage regime change.*He told reporters in Prague, where he and Obama signed an arms control agreement on nuclear weapons, that: \u0093Let me put it straightforward.*<ahref="http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/08\/AR2010040803866.html">I have outlined our limits for such sanctions.\u0094<spanid="more-31048"><\/span><\/p>\n

Faced with diplomatic foot-dragging from Russia, and even stronger resistance from China, the Obama Administration has dropped its talk about imposing \u0093crippling sanctions\u0094 against Iran.*Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last month lowered the bar by talking about \u0093sanctions with bite.\u0094 But any sanctions that come out of the U.N. Security Council are likely to be <ahref="http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Reports\/2010\/04\/Iran-Economic-Sanctions-at-the-UN-Security-Council-The-Incredible-Shrinking-Resolution">relatively toothless.<\/p>\n

Such weak sanctions are unlikely to make much of an impact on the defiant Iranian regime.*In fact the head of Iran\u0092s nuclear program, Ali Akbar Salehi, today announced that Iran is building a <ahref="http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6382JJ20100409">new generation of centrifuges that can enrich uranium ten times faster than previous models.<\/p>\n

Another Iranian official <ahref="http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6362IJ20100409">warned today that Tehran would depend on its violent friends, not the \u0093international community,\u0094 to take action against the United States if it threatened Iran\u0092s security.*Ahmad Khatami, a member of Iran\u0092s Assembly of Experts, said that \u0093If America makes a crazy move, its interests will be endangered by Iran\u0092s allies around the globe.\u0094*That is not exactly the kind of engagement that the Obama Administration has been seeking in its failed effort to resolve festering issues with Iran.<\/p>\n

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On 04.09.10 03:00 PM posted by James Phillips <ahref="http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/medvedev_081110.jpg"><\/p>The Obama Administration continues to talk up the prospects for strong U.N. sanctions on Iran at the same time that it is becoming increasingly clear the United States is unlikely to persuade Russia and China to approve anything stronger than a mild slap on the wrist for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}