NYT- U.S. and Russia Divided on Wording of U.N. Statement on Iran

[maddezmom]

By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
Published: March 26, 2006
WASHINGTON, March 25 — The Bush administration and Russia, struggling to forge a joint strategy on Iran, remain at odds over whether the United Nations Security Council should take a step toward imposing penalties on Iran by labeling its nuclear activities a threat to world peace, American and European officials say.

The officials say that the Russian-American impasse, in which leading European countries are siding with the Bush administration, has held up what the West had hoped would be a unanimous move by the Security Council on Iran this month. The impasse also has echoes of the Iraq war, they say, in that Russia is concerned about a possible replay of the United States' using resolutions by the Council to confront Iran in the same way it acted against Iraq.

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The sensitive talks with Russia are only the latest in a series of difficulties that have strained relations in the last couple years. Among the irritants have been Russia's crackdown on dissent, its cutoff of natural gas shipments to Ukraine and its efforts to extend influence in the region.

A new source of irritation could come with the disclosure from Iraqi documents that a possible Russian spy operation early in the Iraq war in 2003 provided Saddam Hussein with information about American war plans and troop movements.

more:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/international/26diplo.html

[oblivious]

1. I note all the irritants are Russia's fault.

That's one good thing about the US. It is never the source of irritants.

[MrPrax]

2. LOL...

I zero'ed in on that one too... LOL

What? no OTHER irritants? The US is a big fat set of balls and the rest of the world is a dry jockey strap...!!

Good to find a sober impartial source for information--gone from this story is the part about how the US insistence on escalating a actual conflict with Iran at the moment actually imposes a far far greater threat than some 'projected' reality of Iran's nukes 10 years from now...

The Propaganda these days isn't even clever...appealing to the low braincell counts imaginable...