Re: Russia Say No Iran Sanctions


Noriyuki wrote:
Russia would approve sanctions on Iran only if it saw hard evidence that
Tehran's nuclear programme was not peaceful, Itar-Tass news agency
quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying on Friday.

"We will only be able to talk about sanctions after we have concrete
facts confirming that Iran is not exclusively involved in peaceful
nuclear activities," Tass quoted spokesman Mikhail Kamynin as saying.

So, what do our NATO allies say? I found this on this internet:

"Even a world superpower can use a few allies. European nations, long
stalwart friends of the US, express alarm that the Bush administration
could consider attacking Iran without extensive diplomacy, consultation
with allies, and reasoned responses such as revision of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty. Any attack on Iran would fracture NATO and
isolate the US from its traditional allies, argues Frank Biancheri,
president of Newropeans. A recent poll on the Iran-US standoff shows
that most Europeans anticipate weakening US influence on world affairs
and the UN Security Council failing to agree on sanctions. More than 90
percent of Europeans assume that their fellow countrymen do not support
a US attack of Iran. With its hefty deficit, the US depends immensely
on financial support from Europe as well as China and Japan. Indeed,
the EU is second to China in terms of the US trade deficit. Yet US
leaders take a cavalier attitude to opinions voiced from Europe and
elsewhere in the world. Biancheri notes that the US has set itself up
"to be a lonely country in this century," with both leaders and
citizens failing to realize the implications. - YaleGlobal"

More at: http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=7273

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