[Los Angeles Times] Maggie Farley - On Monday, French President Jacques Chirac dealt a significant blow to the Bush administration's effort to slow Iran's nuclear development, saying his government would join Russia and China in resisting the U.S. push for sanctions against Tehran. "I am never in favor of sanctions," Chirac told Europe 1 radio. "I have never observed that sanctions were very effective." Chirac proposed a compromise in which the Security Council would suspend the threat of sanctions and Iran would suspend enrichment of uranium while the two sides talked.
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