BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Imposing economic sanctions on Iran without U.N. backing would be legitimate if other efforts failed to convince Tehran to halt uranium enrichment, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Monday.
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Volker said diplomacy may yet culminate in a U.N. consensus to apply sanctions, an option which at present splits the five members of the U.N. Security Council.
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