Empty words from the post-American president. “Iran Sanctions Not Even On UNSC April Agenda,” by Judith Apter Klinghoffer at History News Network, April 6:
The deadly farce continues. The disbursement of strategic and economic goodies to Russia and China is accelerating. It is all for a good cause of getting “debilitating”, “biting” sanction against Iran through the Security Council, administration officials assure us. Foggy Bottom lets it be known that the Chinese are coming around to supporting anti-Iranian sanctions. Barack Obama announces that tough UN sanctions could expected in weeks. NOT TRUE – NOT EVEN CLOSE. The truth is that the Chinese are instead considering Ahmadinejad’s invitation to an nulcear disarmament conference rivaling that of Obama. Moreover, the UN Security Council has [not] even bothered putting Iran sanctions on its agenda. The FT reports on the bottom of p.4:
Obama’s hopes of swift sanctions against Iran suffer setback in UN
The United Nations Security Council yesterday failed to include Iran’s nuclear programm [sic] on its agenda for April, underlining the likely slow road to sanctions that Barack Obama, US president, had hoped to have in place “within weeks”….