The US has reached agreement with Russia and China on a draft proposal for a new round of sanctions targeting Iran’s nuclear program. The proposal will now go before the UN Security Council. The move came one day after Iran reached a deal with Turkey and Brazil to ship most of its enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for low-level nuclear fuel to run a medical reactor. Speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the deal won’t deter the US from seeking sanctions.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “We don’t believe it was any accident that Iran agreed to this declaration as we were preparing to move forward in New York. With all due respect to my Turkish and Brazilian friends, the fact that we had Russia on board, we had China on board, and that we were moving early this week, namely today, to share the text of that resolution put pressure on Iran, which they were trying to somehow dissipate.”