Barry Obama has come a LONG way since the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinvestment_from_South_Africa">divestment campaign at Occidental. ;)
Major Powers Have a Deal on Sanctions for Iran, U.S. SaysBy PETER BAKER
Published: May 18, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced Tuesday morning that it has struck a deal with other major powers, including Russia and China, to impose new sanctions on Iran, a sharp repudiation 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,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a Senate committee. “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.”
The sanctions agreement Mrs. Clinton announced on Tuesday 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.
Mrs. Clinton acknowledged the efforts of Brazilian and Turkish leaders who brokered the uranium agreement with Iran. But she said the six major powers that have joined together to pressure Iran to give up its uranium enrichment program “are proceeding to rally the international community on behalf of a strong sanctions resolution that will, in our view, send an unmistakable message about what is expected from Iran.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/world/19sanctions.html