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Iran Faces New Sanctions from U.S. and UK If Russia and China Block UN Proposals
(Telegraph-UK) Alex Spillius - Western diplomats are working with Middle Eastern and Asian countries to set up alternative sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program in the expectation that any measures agreed by the UN Security Council will be heavily diluted by Russia or China. A U.S. State Department official told the Daily Telegraph, "What we are doing with our EU partners is coming up with a robust set of coordinated measures and then broadening that with the wider group of partners...and looking at how we can enhance the effectiveness of whatever is accomplished at the multilateral level." In the latest proposal, Washington has presented governments with a list of dozens of companies suspected of being fronts for the Revolutionary Guard, which has taken over a sizeable chunk of the Iranian economy. Washington is confident that Arab states will collaborate in private.