More reason to believe war with Iran may be immanent.
UN/PARIS, September 23 (RIA Novosti) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday that Iran should be given until December to meet international demands over its nuclear program.
The UN Security Council has told Iran to freeze its nuclear program, which many Western countries believe is aimed at building an atomic weapon. The Islamic Republic says the program is for civilian energy generation.
“There will be a deadline, which in my mind is the month of December,” Sarkozy said in an interview with …

NEW YORK (AP) — Giving some ground on a top priority of President Barack Obama, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that sanctions are rarely productive but he opened the door to tougher ones to halt Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program.
”In some cases, sanctions are inevitable,” the Russian leader said after he and Obama held talks on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meetings.