Tuesday, June 30, 2009

BARACK OBAMA

President Obama Opposes New Sanctions on Iran?

This article, from a Naples-based Reuters correspondent, appears to suggest that some European countries want new sanctions on Iran in response to its crackdown on protesters, but the Obama administration does not, though maybe this is the correspondent putting words in the president's mouth.

The relevant section:

As Italian prime minister Berlusconi is acting president of the G8, but it remains to be seen how much support there is for a tightening of sanctions already adopted against Iran over its nuclear programme by the United Nations, the European Union and the United States.

US President Barack Obama is trying to engage Iran over its nuclear programme and he and some allies could consider new sanctions counter productive.

Experts say agreement on trade sanctions would be unlikely anyway because of opposition from U.N. Security Council members Russia, which is part of the G8, and China.

Suddenly, on the issue of Iran, we're aligned with Russia against Germany?

06/30 09:02 AMShare