Sanctions against Iran are a dead letter (Updated)
- May 19, 2010
- News
By fleet diplomatic footwork, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton submitted a sanctions package to the UN Security Council Tuesday, May 19, that Western diplomats admitted contained few new measures but gained the reluctant assent of Russia and China, as well as the UK, France and Germany.
To gain this endorsement, the original draft was heavily diluted out of a necessity to salvage the last vestige of the