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Iran sanctions: US strikes deal with Britain, Russia, China | The United States has struck a deal with other big powers, including Russia and China, for imposing new sanctions on Iran. The latest announcement has come as a negation of the deal Tehran offered just a day
before to ship its nuclear fuel out of the country. "We have reached agreement
on a strong draft with the cooperation of both Russia and China," New York Times
quoted U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton telling it to a Senate committee
on Tuesday morning. "We plan to circulate that draft resolution to the entire
Security Council today. And let me say, Mr. Chairman, I think this announcement
is as convincing an answer to the efforts undertaken in Tehran over the last few
days as any we could provide," she added. The sanctions agreement, Clinton said,
was reached by the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - the five
permanent, veto-wielding members of the Security Council - plus Germany. The
announcement
came just a day after Iran said it would ship roughly half of its nuclear fuel
to Turkey, in a bid to assuage concerns about its program. American, European
and Russian officials reacted with deep skepticism to that proposal, noting that
it would still leave Iran with enough low-enriched uranium to create fuel for
one nuclear weapon if it chose to make one. "There are a number of unanswered
questions regarding the announcement coming from Tehran," Mrs. Clinton told the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee. |
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