Netanyahu Lobbying Russia To Support Iran Sanctions

Reuters reports that "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will push for urgent 'crippling sanctions' against Iran over its nuclear program during talks in Moscow on Monday with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. 'We will discuss a number of issues. First and foremost the Iranian issue,' Netanyahu said on Sunday at the weekly Israeli cabinet meeting. He flies to Moscow later in the day. 'Israel believes that heavy pressure must be applied on Iran --- above all very severe sanctions, which were referred to by the U.S. secretary of state as 'crippling sanctions',' Netanyahu said. Iran's announcement this week that it had begun making higher-grade nuclear fuel has heightened Western suspicions that Tehran is trying to develop atomic weapons. The United States, Britain, France and Germany are mulling a fourth round of U.N. Security Council sanctions on Iran to persuade it to rein in its nuclear program." Tweet