Friday June 18, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

The US and the EU have ratcheted up the Iranian sanctions.

The fourth set of sanctions has been now been passed through the UN Security Council. And now the US and EU have independently increased their own sanctions.

Russia is very upset.
They called the actions of the US and the EU "unacceptable."
"For us, attempts to place oneself above the Security Council in this way are unacceptable," the official Foreign Ministry statement said.

Included in these new sanctions will be Iranian oil companies and banks and the businesses controlled by the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Russian leaders think that the US and EU are being unfair. Unfair? Yes... unfair.

Russia only voted for sanctions against Iran because they were watered down.
Now Russian is claiming that the US and EU are putting themselves above the Security Council.

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