Washington, March 31: US President Barack Obama has said he wants the ew set of sanctions against Iran to be placed within weeks and not in months.
“My hope is that we are going to get this (sanctions against Iran) done this spring. So I am not interested in waiting months for a sanctions regime to be in place. I’m interested in seeing that regime in place in weeks,” Obama said in response to a question at a joint White House press conference with visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
“We think that we can get sanctions within weeks,” Obama said, adding his administration is working to emphasise its international partners that this is not simply an issue of trying to isolate Iran.
The issue has enormous implications for the safety and the security of the entire region, according to him.
–PTI