Clinton sees Russian support for sanction against Iran

Clinton held talks with President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow on Tuesday,as key Russian politicians appeared to undercut their president’s earlier comments that sanctions were sometimes inevitable.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and foreign minister Sergei Lavrov both said that it was premature to talk about sanctions.

But Clinton said the two seemingly different stances were not incompatible.

“The president,and he repeated again to us yesterday,has said consistently is that,look,Russia does not prefer sanctions… they have lots of doubts and concerns about sanctions. But sanctions may be inevitable,” she said.

“I believe if sanctions become necessary,we will have support from Russia.

“Even Minister Lavrov has said that if Iran were to renege on the inspections,or renege on the agreement we’ve reached about shipping out the low enriched uranium… what else would you do? You’d have to sanction.”