Surprise: Russia and China resisting Iran sanctions
It should come as no surprise to any of you that one of the results of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's sudden agreement to 'negotiate' is that Russia and China are seizing on the 'negotiations' as an excuse to resist harsher sanctions against Iran. The meeting of the five United Nations permanent Security Council members and Germany was complicated by a last-minute offer of talks from Saeed Jalili, the top nuclear negotiator in Iran.
Because no details of the offer were available, the delegates assumed that Mr Jalili planned to use his proposal to slow the progress of moves to impose sanctions. Russia and China used the prospect of a peace offering from Tehran, however vague, as an argument against punitive measures.
One of the diplomats said: “The point is to duck, dive, tease and confuse until they are more or less resistant to the kind of sanctions that we have been considering.”
Meanwhile, the French and the Germans - fearful that if they don't act Israel will - have suddenly gotten much tougher on Iran.
Israel Matzav: Surprise: Russia and China resisting Iran sanctionsFrance and Germany called this week for harder-edged sanctions. Their concern is that if the West is not seen to be pushing Iran harder, Israel may consider a military strike. Critics of President Obama, such as John Bolton, the former US envoy to the United Nations, argue that sanctions are doomed to fail even if they could be linked directly to stopping Iranian nuclear plans.
“Adopting tougher economic sanctions is simply another detour away from hard decisions on whether to accept a nuclear Iran or support using force to prevent it,” he wrote in The Wall Street Journal this week.Read All at :
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