“And that’s been always our premise, is that we provide that door,” said Obama.”But we also say we’re not going to just wait indefinitely and allow for the development of the nuclear weapon, the breach of international treaties, and wake up one day and find ourselves in a much worse situation and unable to act.”So my hope is that the Iranian leadership will look at the statement coming out of the G8 and recognize that world opinion is clear.”Russia, Iran’s closest thing to an ally at the world’s most powerful top table, argued that the bloody crackdown on opposition protestors after the June 12 polls was an “internal matter”, and Washington failed to find support for its call for tougher sanctions against Tehran.
