[Independent-UK] Anne Penketh - The U.S. and Britain are pushing ahead with plans to tighten international sanctions on Tehran, despite concerns about greater Russian and Chinese resistance after the latest U.S. intelligence assessment. A Foreign Office spokesman said the U.S., Britain, France and Germany were "working the phones" with Russian and Chinese officials on the text of a draft resolution they hope to submit to the UN Security Council next week. But UN diplomats said the assessment would complicate the drive to secure Russian and Chinese agreement, after the Chinese ambassador to the UN said "things have changed."
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