Moscow believes that the application of sanctions against Iran is an
inefficient and extremely dangerous policy, the head of the
Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry
Alexander Lukashevich said today.
"This policy proved to be ineffective. We have repeatedly said that it
not only creates enormous economic difficulties, which primarily fall
on the civilian population ... it complicates the process of political
settlement, complicates the negotiating process. Symptomatically
enough, on the eve of any major important meetings in the format of
the six-party talks with Iran there is always a temptation to apply
the "sanctions cudgel" again," RIA Novosti reports Lukashevich as saying.
The U.S. imposed a series of new sanctions on Iran, aimed at reducing
the income of the republic from oil sales. This time they also
concerned Iranian state television.
