The five veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council (US, UK, France, Russia and China) have come to an agreement on the language of a Security Council resolution calling on Iran to cease Uranium enrichment and return to negotiations (appeasement discussions). Initially, the EU and US had pushed for sanctions against Iran if they fail to comply with the resolution. China and Russia, however, long friends of the Islamic Republic, balked at any penalties for Iran, if the mullahs of Tehran fail to comply. In short, Iran has no incentive to draw back from the brink and likely will continue on its present course.

This “resolution” as it were has no meaning and no force, the one thing the Iranians will respect. Russia and China, as we have noted on numerous occasions, have gone to great lengths to protect Iran. Iran is a strategic economic and trade partner with Russia, buying military equipment and other advanced technology, which they have used to develop their indigenous nuclear research program in the first place. China, on the other hand, is becoming increasingly dependent on foreign oil and gas reserves and will do nothing to threaten that supply, as such it is in the interest of both China and Russia to obstruct UN action at every turn, which have done with this meaningless, League of Nation-esque resolution, which will only encourage tyrants.

History has shown that even when Security Council resolutions threaten the use of force, its architects soon loose heart, serving only to embolden rogue regimes, such as Iraq, who disregarded the UN for over a decade. Iran too has vowed to ignore the resolution and the 30 day time limit imposed….In the end there can be but one result: tyranny will again triumph as the nations of Europe, Asia and North America rest idly by while a renegade nuclear power emerges in our midst.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4859540.stm