Sanctions against Iran? Why not against the US?

guardian: A top U.S. diplomat said Wednesday that most of the U.N. Security Council's permanent members and the Group of Eight support possible sanctions against Iran in the dispute over that country's nuclear program.

Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns also said the United States has not given up on efforts to resolve the dispute through diplomacy. Earlier this week, President Bush said "all options are on the table"' - including the military option - to prevent Iran from developing atomic weapons.

"Nearly every country is considering some sort of sanctions and that's new," Burns told reporters after two days of meetings in Moscow.

He declined to specify which countries support possible sanctions. Russia and China, both of which are permanent Security Council members, are seen as the most likely to resist sanctions. Read more

db: The UN should be applying sanctions against the US. For it is the US that's threatening to strike a non nuclear state with nuclear weapons. It is the US that's sending a signal to the world that nukes are the only defence against its belligerence [think N Korea]. It is the US tearing up the NPT. Orwell rolls in his grave.