Some UN Security Council powers met on Iran today. There's a hope that just trying to have the Security Council not talk about Iran could be enough to bring Ahmadinejad to his senses:
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw suggested Iran could rethink its course merely by being put in Security Council hands and that sanctions, which are unpalatable to many industrialized states that import Iranian oil, might not prove necessary.
"The fact that Iran is so concerned not to see the matter referred ... I think underlines the strength of the authority of that body," Straw said at a London conference on terrorism.
Russia and China - especially China-- don't seem to want to do much about this at all.
AP's reporting it too, but with a happier spin. That's OK; I don't mind a positive outlook.
Posted by floridacracker at January 16, 2006 12:57 PM