Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, said his country agreed that progress on talks with Iran was too slow and that "other options" might have to be pursued. That can be taken as a reference to more sanctions on the Iranian regime. "In case we fail, the other options remain on the table, in order to move the process in a different direction," Mr Medvedev said after meeting Barack Obama, US president, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Singapore.
"As reasonable politicians, we understand that any process should have a final point," said Mr Medvedev. The process of talks exists not for the pleasure of talking but for achieving practical goals."
I'm not encouraged by more Russian words that seem to serve the purpose only of stringing us along, which buys tome for Iran.
And more to the point, while our "final point" is to stop Iran under the mullahs from going nuclear, why do we think Russia's "final point" is the same thing? What if Russia's "final point" is a nuclear-armed rogue Iran that serves as a loose cannon to keep us off balance while Russia seeks to recover some of their lost Soviet glory and lost empire?
