The P5+1 met today in New York for three hours of discussion for possible sanctions against Iran. The Chinese government described the talks as “constructive” and officials say that talks will continue next week.
Exactly what was accomplished by the talks was unclear, but the major participants all reiterated their assorted, conflicting positions in the wake of the talks, suggesting that it can’t have solved much.
President Obama expressed confidence that everyone was behind the sanctions, and predicted that “strong, tough” sanctions would be approved in the UN Security Council in the next few weeks.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said they would support only limited sanctions against Iran, and that they would oppose anything that did serious harm to Russian trade with Iran.
Chinese officials said they preferred diplomacy to sanctions entirely. Either China or Russia would be capable of vetoing the measure in the UN Security Council, and with several other UNSC members, including Turkey and Brazil, vigorously opposing the sanctions such a veto can’t be ruled out.
Russia and China should stop dicking around with this. It seems like they want to string this out so that they can blame Iran once they do what they obviously are in the process of doing, shoving Iran under the bus entirely.
Loaded dice and cards up their sleeves, our prophets of wars to come scrute and predict because this is their game and they are calling the shots.
All they ask of us is that we pay the bill.
oil oil and oil
Any sanction on Iran are illegal as Iran hasn´t done anything illegal.