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...attack by firing medium-range missiles at Israel. Russia, a veto-wielding permanent member of the U.N. Security council, has backed three sets of mild U.N. sanctions against Iran since 2006. But it has so far blocked any stronger measures.

In this article: Iran, Russia, Israel, Hillary Clinton, U.N., and Middle East

...own family. He knows we have no other option. Iran continues to slap away Obama's open hand, secure in the knowledge that China or Russia will veto any serious U.N. sanctions. Israel, too, has taken the measure of Obama. "Bibi"...

In this article: Barack Obama, United States, Eliot Engel, Beijing, Hamid Karzai, Viktor Yushchenko, Mahmoud Abbas, China, and Israel

...on resistance from Russia and China. Those two nations have also resisted U.S. and European calls for tougher U.N. sanctions against Iran for refusing to freeze its enrichment program. While any board resolution is mostly symbolic,...

In this article: Iran, Uranium, International Atomic Energy Agency, Tehran, Security Council, U.N., Russia, Vienna, and China

...are aimed only at generating electricity. The amount of uranium that would be exported by Iran under the U.N. plan, about 1.2 tons, represents about 70 percent of its stockpile. It would have been sent to Russia in one batch by the...

In this article: Uranium, Iran, Hillary Clinton, Tehran, U.S., Russia, and France

...Iran Russia is prepared to support further sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program following the Islamic Republic's failure to accept a UN deal that would ease Western fears, according to the Russian Kommersant daily. Photo: AP...

In this article: Dmitry Medvedev, Uranium, Iran, Barack Obama, UN, Teheran, Washington, Russia, and Der Spiegel

...some of its nuclear material being enriched outside Iran and returned as fuel rods. The deal - brokered by the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency - envisages Iran sending about 70% of its low-enriched uranium to...

In this article: Iran, Uranium, Tehran, UN Security Council, International Atomic Energy Agency, UN, Tel Aviv, and France

...of atomic energy. Iran on Monday reinforced its rejection of a UN-brokered deal that would call for Russia and France to enrich its uranium, with a senior official saying no nuclear reactor fuel would leave Iran. Lula has repeatedly...

In this article: Iran, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Brazil, Tehran, United States, UN Security Council, Middle East, Israel, and Uranium