Russia to stand by Iran, warns West for strike and sanctions

Russia to stand by Iran, warns West for strike and sanctions

Moscow: (Wednesday, January 18, 2012) Maintaining that an attack on Iran will create a catastrophe, Russia has said that US and European Union’s sanctions against Tehran were only aimed at diverting people’s attention from floundering
economy.

Lamenting that a hostile approach towards Iran and the contemplation of imposing sanctions on it or launching an attack will only exacerbate the situation, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that attacking Iran will undermine
the efforts to revive negotiations to contain the country from developing nuclear weapons.

Insisting on revival of talks between global powers and Tehran, Lavrov stressed in the annual press conference that Western nations must not focus on imposing sanctions alone, let alone threats to use force.

Commenting on if an attack is launched, he said, “I have no doubt that it would pour fuel on a fire which is already smouldering, the hidden smouldering fire of Sunni-Shia confrontation, and beyond that (cause) a chain reaction
– I don’t know where it would stop.”

On the chances of whether this catastrophe will happen or not you should ask those who repeatedly talk about this.”

Israel, along with America have been reported to have said that they could strike or impose sanctions on Iran to stop it from developing nuclear weapons. In response to which, Iran has threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz,
a crucial oil shipping lane, if sanctions prevent it from exporting oil.

Opposing the imposition of sanctions through UN Security Council or European Union over Iran’s nuclear programme, which, by west, is feared to produce weapons, Lavrov said, “All imaginable sanctions that could influence Iran’s
conduct in the nuclear sphere….have been exhausted.”

“Additional sanctions are aimed at causing a strangling effect on the Iranian economy and the situation of the Iranian people, probably in the hope of provoking discontent” he added.

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