Obama's Iran sanctions strategy is routed by Chinese, Russian rebuffs

DEBKAfile Special Report

November 18, 2009, 6:09 PM (GMT+02:00)

Obama runs slap into Great Wall of Chinese no

Chinese president Hu Jintao said clearly after meeting US president Barack Obama in Beijing Tuesday, Nov. 17, that their governments disagree on tougher sanctions for Iran - or any other issue relating to the Islamic republic. DEBKAfile's sources report that this rebuff has led Washington's efforts to round up big power endorsement of harsh penalties for Iran's continued intransigence on its nuclear program, such as an embargo on refined petrol products and gasoline, have come to a dead end. The efficacy of unilateral American sanctions, the only non-military option still left to Washington, is questionable.

Secretary of state Hillary Clinton made a last-ditch bid Wednesday, Nov. 18, to scale China's negative wall, before the US president left for South Korea. She tried to talk the Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo into at least issuing a Beijing statement on Iran. He refused outright.

The Chinese rejection followed a rebuff from Moscow in the form of a comment by Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov that it was premature to say that diplomatic efforts for defusing tensions over Iran's nuclear program had failed. He said it was too soon to talk about stepping up sanctions on Iran, if at all, so contradicting the supportive message Obama received from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when they met in Singapore last week and agreed that time was running out for Iran to respond to international efforts to meet it halfway.

Tuesday, before Beijing and Moscow knocked sanctions on the head, Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu said optimistically that the Iranian nuclear issue should be left for the world powers and international community to deal with. In a few short hours, that option had melted away.

In the last 24 hours, Israelis have been too busy discussing the expansion of the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem to notice that their former and current governments, headed respectively by Ehud Olmert and Binyamin Netanyahu, have just suffered one of their biggest foreign policy defeats. They are now confronted with a most unwelcome dilemma.

Gerald

Paradigm Intel

Law of unintended consequences,

Iran gets Nuke and passes it around.

Chechen rebels get Nuke.

Uighur dissidents get nuke.

Look at Iran's export of missiles, rockets,

IED's, etc all over the world.

Russia, China pushes USA to War with Iran

The AP reported that "Six world powers will meet in Brussels to discuss what measures could be applied against Tehran for its refusal to halt its nuclear enrichment program, an EU official said Thursday. Friday's meeting will include the U.N. Security Council's permanent members - Britain, China, France, Russia and the U.S. - plus Germany, the official said on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to disclose details of the gathering." http://bit.ly/1DXNXJ

.Iran strike day one:

http://warintel.blogspot.com/2012/02/strike-on-iran-day-one.html

Labels: China pushes USA to War with Iran, russia

1 Comments:

JOSEPH from SPAIN said...: --In my humble opinion the theocratic Iranian government has always wanted the war. The religious people are always fighting the devil and the "devil" are the US for them.They want the martyrdom.

--Certainly, not the same kidnap the diplomatic personnel of the US embassy or to manufacture atomic bombs. Usa did not want to attack Iran when only supported terrorist groups or Marines were Killed in Beirut.

--Now US must make a decision and that is it Iranian Government wants: WAR.

--The Iranian objective is the scene of the Battle of GALLIPOLI and unite Chiites and Sunnis against a common ennemy.

--Paradoxically, who shoots first loses, since this is a religious war.; 1:39 PM