Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticised United States sanctions against Iran as "not helpful" after meeting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Tuesday.
After weeks of escalating US rhetoric on Iran, the White House vowed Tuesday to "pursue every possible diplomatic means" to defuse the volatile dispute over Tehran's nuclear program.
Major powers plan to meet in London this week to discuss new sanctions on Iran amid a spat between Washington and the United Nations over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
The amendment that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton?s opponents criticized Tuesday night was actually a nonbinding resolution that did not give President Bush authorization to take military action against Iran.
The top presidential contenders are offering markedly different ideas on how they would keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons, suddenly a central issue in the 2008 campaign.
Major powers plan to meet in London this week to discuss new U.N. sanctions on Iran amid a spat between Washington and the U.N. nuclear watchdog over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
Iran held fresh talks with Russia on Tuesday, just before Moscow and other major powers discuss possible new U.N. sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear plans.
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich on Tuesday mockingly questioned President George W. Bush's mental health for saying Iran's nuclear ambitions might trigger World War III.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticised United States sanctions against Iran as "not helpful" after meeting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Tuesday, Interfax news agency reported.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Iran Tuesday on a surprise visit for talks with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the controversial Iranian nuclear programme.