Western leaders have made clear they plan to push the post-election crisis in Iran to the top of the agenda but China and Russia are cool towards internationalizing it.
“The issue of Iran will be front and center” of the G8, said Denis McDonough, one of Obama’s top foreign policy aides.
“The Iranian authorities are trying to blame ‘foreign powers’ for their violent and abusive campaign against peaceful protesters,” said Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch’s executive director. “The G8 needs to make it clear to Tehran that it cannot shift the blame and that human rights concerns will be at the forefront of future G8 engagement with Iran.”
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