As US President Barak Obama prepares to leave for a state visit to Russia, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev told Italian TV that US sanctions against Iran will only serve to complicate the situation.

Medvedev feels sanctions will have the opposite impact and will without a doubt not bring about a halt of Iran’s nuclear program. The Russian leader expressed support for President Obama’s new diplomatic approach, dialogue, confident this is the route to take vis-à-vis Iran.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)