By Patrick Goodenough,CNS News
Obama makes concessions,gets nothing from Putin
Hopes that Russia might be more accommodating following the Obama administration’s missile defense shift appeared premature on Tuesday,when Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton found no support at the Kremlin for tightening sanctions against Iran.
A senior U.S. official traveling with Clinton had said before her meetings that she would press Russian leaders on “what specific forms of pressure Russia would
be prepared to join us and our other allies in if Iran fails to live up to its obligations” on the nuclear dispute.
But Clinton told a media briefing after talks with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that no requests had been made.
“We did not ask for anything today,” she said. “We reviewed the situation and where it stood,which I think was the appropriate timing for what this process entails.”