basically, the administration exempted russia and china from every sanction that even resembled toughness. and then they gave away the rest of the candy store.
sanctions won't work. they have never worked.
the only thing that the obama administration is doing now is virtually assuring the world that, barring Israeli military intervention, it will have to deal with a nuclear iran.
hope and change. change that we need. hope and healing. idiots.
Moscow and Beijing won a series of concessions from the United States as negotiations on the new resolution dragged on for six months after President Obama’s year-end deadline for Iran to cooperate with UN demands that it halt uranium enrichment.
As well as dropping a proposal for a ban on new investment in Iran’s energy sector, the United States agreed to water down the text to limit the scope of the new sanctions against the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp and the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines.
Washington removed four Russian firms from a US blacklist for helping to arm Iran and Syria, and re-wrote the resolution to allow Moscow to go ahead with its much-delayed sale of S-300 air defence missiles to Teheran.
The Obama Administration also promised to try to exempt Russian and Chinese firms from future Congressional sanctions on companies that do business with Iran.
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