Obama strikes out again: Lavrov says Iran sanctions 'counterproductive'
Oops.Barack Obama may have thought he was buying Russian cooperation on Iran when he abandoned the United States' allies in Poland and the Czech Republic. But he was wrong.
Secretary of State Clinton met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday, and Lavrov says that sanctions against Iran would be 'counterproductive.'
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that the threat of sanctions against Iran would be counterproductive, resisting US efforts to win agreement for measures if Iran fails to prove its nuclear program is peaceful.
Lavrov spoke following talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is trying to gauge Moscow's willingness to join the US in imposing sanctions if Iran fails to come clean on its nuclear activities.
Lavrov said Russia's position is that under current conditions even the threat of sanctions against Iran would be counterproductive.
Clinton said the US agreed it was important to pursue diplomacy with Iran.
"At the same time ... we have always looked at the potential of sanctions in the event we are not successful" in persuading Iran to comply, she said at a joint news conference.
Israel Matzav: Obama strikes out again: Lavrov says Iran sanctions 'counterproductive'
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