Chirac Springs Into Retreat
Charles Johnson
Tue Sep 19, 2006 at 1:12 pm PDT • Views: 217
No surprises here, just France doing what France does: Chirac calls for threat of Iran sanctions to be lifted.
President Jacques Chirac has broken ranks with the US and Britain by calling for the suspension of UN Security Council action against Iran during negotiations over its nuclear programme.
In a radio interview yesterday before flying to New York for the UN General Assembly, the French President provoked a diplomatic storm by backing Iran’s demand that the Security Council should halt its involvement in the nuclear dossier.
Frank says: