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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7463687" data-attributes="member: 92282">Russian Foreign  Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the United States and other Western  nations on Thursday against imposing unilateral sanctions on Iran over  its nuclear program, Interfax news agency reported.The European Union has said it may impose  unilateral sanctions if a U.N. Security Council resolution fails. U.S. President Barack Obama's  administration has been lobbying Western companies not to do business  with Iran, but has not imposed sanctions against them.Countries facing Security Council sanctions  "cannot under any circumstances be the subject of one-sided sanctions  imposed by one or other government bypassing the Security Council",  Lavrov was quoted as saying by Interfax."The  position of the United States today does not display understanding of  this absolutely clear truth."Russia  is in talks with the United States and other U.N. Security Council  members on a fourth round of sanctions. Moscow has indicated it could  support broader sanctions but has stressed they must not harm the  Iranian people.Washington has not  publicly warned of unilateral sanctions but has made clear it wants  tougher measures than veto-wielding Security Council member Russia is  likely to accept.Permanent  Security Council member China has joined Russia in opposing Washington's  plans to impose tough, wide-ranging sanctions on the Islamic Republic  over its refusal to suspend sensitive uranium enrichment activity and  open up fully to U.N. nuclear inspections.Lavrov's  warning came just before the arrival in Russia on Thursday of President  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, a non-permanent member of the  Security Council that is also opposed to further sanctions against Iran.Lula was expected to meet senior Russian  officials on Friday to discuss how to revive a stalled nuclear fuel swap  deal meant to minimize the risk of Tehran using enrichment for military  purposes. Lula will travel on to Iran on Sunday.Lavrov, speaking to deputies from Russia's  upper house of parliament, said the United States tended not to see  international law as having pre-eminence over national laws."We are now confronted with this problem  during discussion of a new U.N. Security Council resolution on Iran."Despite his criticism, Lavrov said that  relations with the United States had shown clear signs of improvement,  specifically with the signing of a nuclear-disarmament treaty that would  reduce their deployed nuclear warheads by about 30 percent.He said the document would soon be  submitted to Russia's parliament for ratification.<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64C1SU20100513" target="_blank">reuters</a></blockquote>

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