RIYADH – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in Riyadh on Tuesday that further sanctions on Tehran over its uranium enrichment program would bear no fruit.

“I don't believe that any further sanctions will yield results,” Erdogan told journalists, adding that earlier rounds of sanctions “have never yielded results.”
Washington and some other arrogant Western powers are seeking a new round of UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
China traditionally opposes sanctions but went along with three earlier rounds of limited sanctions.
China and Russia have not directly responded on the push for a fourth round of sanctions, but they have emphasized the need for negotiations. Last week, China's deputy UN ambassador Liu Zhenmin said Beijing feels the Iranian nuclear issue should be dealt through diplomatic engagement.
Turkey, which has good relations with its neighbor Iran, has offered to host an exchange of Iran’s low-enriched uranium (LEU) with 20 percent enriched uranium to be supplied by world powers to Tehran as part of a UN-drafted deal.
Iran and some Western countries are locked in a stalemate over the deal which envisages shipping out Tehran’s LEU to France and Russia for further conversion into higher-grade uranium.
Photo: Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a news conference in Riyadh, March 9, 2010. (Reuters photo)