The next day Obama addressed the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh. But he did not discuss the economy or the plummeting dollar. Instead, the President revealed a previously undisclosed nuclear facility near Qom, Iran.
"Yesterday in Vienna, the United States, the United Kingdom and France presented detailed evidence to the IAEA demonstrating that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility near Qom for several years.
This was not precisely true. Iran had notified the International Atomic Energy Agency of a new "pilot facility just days prior to Obama's U.N. Speech. This notification was in accordance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty, so the site was not illegal or even clandestine.
After declaring Qom a sinister nuclear threat to the world, Obama called on the U.N. to enact tougher sanctions against Iran, specifically targeting the oil-rich nation's "energy sector .
Secretary of State Clinton was dispatched to Moscow to secure Russia's vote for these new sanctions. Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council, with veto power over any U.N. punitive measures. They refused.
Instead the Russians attended a summit with the Chinese just days after rebuffing Clinton. The two Asian powers agreed upon a "shared stance opposed to further sanctions against Iran, and US interests in general.
In the words of Russian Prime Minister Putin:
"Both China and Russia have very peaceful foreign policies. We are not fighting wars anywhere. We don't have troops deployed overseas ... The joint position of Russia and China on some issues restrains some of our hot-headed colleagues.
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