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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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MOSCOW | Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:47pm EDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday said that additional sanctions the United States and European Union are imposing on Iran on top of measures approved by the U.N. Security Council last week were "unacceptable."

"For us, attempts to place oneself above the Security Council in this way are unacceptable," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It said the additional sanctions would undermine efforts to cooperate on resolving tension over Iran's nuclear program.

(Reporting by Steve Gutterman; editing by Gleb Bryanski)
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Tyco001 wrote:
The United States of Israel is beginning to implode thanks largely to its Zionist bed-pals it deems so precious it is willing sacrifice 300 odd million US citizens to protect.

These latest proposals are ridiculous and unsubstantiated, Putin is not somebody you can easily snow, so don’t be surprised if soon all bets are off.

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