Chinese opposition is expected to forestall any additional international pushes for sanctions against Iran, after Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi once again insisted that disputes should be solved through diplomatic negotiations.
Yesterday’s P5+1 meeting, aimed chiefly at discussing the Iran dispute, ended in failure, with officials calling the meeting “inconclusive” and both China and Russia seen as pressing for continued diplomacy.
Both China and Russia have traditionally been less supportive of sanctions against Iran than the Western members of the UN Security Council. Though officials have expressed hope that Russia could be brought on board, it is China that has been unwilling to move forward with the sanctions.
Iran is under pressure to abandon its civilian nuclear program, or to embrace an IAEA draft agreement for third party enrichment. Iran has called for additional talks on the third party enrichment scheme, but has ruled out abandoning the program, insisting that there is no legal basis for blocking it. The IAEA has been inspecting Iran’s nuclear program and has repeatedly certified that none of its uranium is being diverted to any unapproved use.
ahh good old eastasia i do so fondly remember you as the enemy we have always been at war with, having always been at war with eurasia is getting boring
I believe both China and Russia are behaving rationally.
But "that's not how the world works anymore".
We drive it now by employing irrational forces, so one can benefit from the power siphoned of the business of increasing chaos and destruction.
All we ever hear from the West is 'crippling sanctions', 'all options are on the table', war, war and more war. What a bunch of psycopaths!
Clearly the only adults are China and Russia.
It's nice to hear that someone with enough juice is blocking the Amerika/Zionist drive to maintain Israel's monopoly of terror in the ME. If Iran doesn't acquire nukes, some other ME entity needs to. There is now almost nothing to keep Israel in check, as repeated attacks on their neighbors demonstrate.