Russia says it will join sanctions against Iran

[Chris]

Russia says it will join sanctions against Iran
Thursday, 24 September 2009
The Times
Catherine Philp in New York

President Obama’s biggest foreign policy gamble appeared to pay off last night as Russia opened the door to punishing new sanctions on Iran to halt its nuclear programme. Emerging from his first meeting with Mr Obama since the Eastern Europe missile shield was scrapped, President Medvedev of Russia conceded that “in some cases, sanctions are inevitable”.

Mr Obama went into the meeting, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, ready to press Russia to support sanctions if Iran refused to address concerns about its nuclear activities. He emerged saying that Mr Medvedev had agreed that “serious additional sanctions” must be considered if diplomatic efforts fail.

That stance was reiterated later by David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, who emerged from a meeting of foreign ministers from the E3 + 3 countries – Britain, France, Germany, the US, Russia and China — to declare a united front on a policy of diplomacy and sanctions. Mr Miliband called for a “serious response” from Iran at talks scheduled for October 1 if it wished to avoid sanctions.

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[Chris]

I don't trust the Russians. They will probably only agree to toothless sanctions. They make a lot of money dealing with the Iranians.

[mattfivefour]

I don't trust the Russians. They will probably only agree to toothless sanctions. They make a lot of money dealing with the Iranians.

I agree.

[mikalikat]

The whole concept is just ludicrous. It's like a parent buying their kids booze to have a house party, then "grounding" them when someone finds out. Do they honestly think we are that stupid?

[Suzanne]

The whole concept is just ludicrous. It's like a parent buying their kids booze to have a house party, then "grounding" them when someone finds out. Do they honestly think we are that stupid?

They obviously do.

Russia has built Iran's nuclear reactors, and I feel certain that it still has multi-billion dollar contracts with Iran. There are cities in Iran that house Russian scientists.

I just know that Russia is going level some really tough sanctions against Iran. (NOT)