Russia warns against more sanctions

Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW: Russia warned Western nations against imposing separate sanctions on Iran and threatened to strike back if such restrictions affect Russian companies. Moscow also said the new sanctions would not stop it from fulfilling its contract with Iran for the supply of S-300 surface-to-air missile systems.

The Foreign Ministry said the U.N. document was aimed at giving “impetus to a politico-diplomatic solution”. “However, we cannot ignore signals indicating that some of our partners intend… to consider additional, tougher sanctions against Iran than those provided by the UNSC resolution,” it said.