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New Iran sanctions a ‘regime change tool’ - Russia
Published: 09 November, 2011, 19:45
Iran, Natanz: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a visit to Natanz uranium enrichment facilities some 300 kms, south of the capital Tehran. (AFP Photo / Iran's presidency office)
TAGS: Arms, Military, Nuclear, UN, Russia, Politics, Iran, Ahmadinejad, USA, Robert Bridge
Moscow says it will not support new and harsher sanctions against Iran, arguing that such a move would amount to an attempt to facilitate regime change in the increasingly isolated Islamic Republic.
Following the release of a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that says Iran may have taken steps to develop nuclear weapons, Moscow says the resource of UN sanctions against Iran was exhausted by Resolution 1929, the fourth round of sanctions against Tehran.
Moreover, sanctions against Iran would be perceived as a “regime change tool.”
"The international community will view all additional sanctions against Iran as an instrument of regime change in Tehran,”Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told reporters on Wednesday.
“We cannot accept this approach; Russia will not consider such proposals.”The imposition of further sanctions against Iran will not help strengthen the nuclear non-proliferation regime, he added.
Meanwhile, Moscow is calling for dialogue as the best way of resolving the standoff.
"We think that dialogue is the only solution,” Gatilov said. “Iran should be encouraged to deal with real problems.”
The Russian official expressed concern over the West’s “practice of utilizing unilateral sanctions against Iran,” which have visibly failed in their aim of “establishing dialogue with Tehran," he said.
In many ways, Moscow is echoing the pledge made by US President Barack Obama on the campaign trail four years ago when he promised to “sit down and talk” with enemies of the United States, as opposed to silently provoking them.
On Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated Iran’s position, saying its nuclear program would not “budge an iota” in the wake of the report.
He backed up his claim be saying that his country has “no need for a nuclear bomb.”
Meanwhile, critics of the UN report say the document presented no concrete evidence to back up its allegations that Iran may be planning to use its nuclear industry to develop a bomb.
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Western countries need to change their foreign policies.
It is long run to survive for the most of the western countries.
America has no other job than to destroy nations including prosperous societies. We used to believe whatever they say because they controlled the main stream media, but with more access to the internet we now can distinguish the lies and the truths and the hidden intentions.
Russia can use this opportunity to regain its lost pride in the Libyan massacre by NATO. The question is are the people of Vietnam enjoying American Democracy and 'freedom'? What does the average Iraqi think about the US, with over 50,000 dead including Gaddafi are the Libyans celebrating the conquest of their nation (forget the pictures you see on Aljazeera of rebels on the backs of machine mounted SUVs flashing the V-sign to the cameras). Have the US being able to win the hearts and minds of Afghans after 10 years of war? What is the feeling of the people of Ivory Coast seeing the French troops bombarding their presidential palace.
The West is going crazy with dwindling economies and are afraid of a prosperous Russia and China and the aim is to control oil producing nations and energy sources around the world. The hold to ransome oil producing countries like Nigeria and Angola where the oil is siphoned almost for free and the leadership there is called 'emerging democracy' while countries like Venezuela and Libya who control their oil where called 'Dictators and State Sponsors of Terrorism'.
Russia must understand that after their allies fall, they West will come directly after them like Hitler to take over Moscow as they are being gradually surrounded with missile defence shields and NATO meberships.