Rice seeks Russian backing on Iran
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Armed with support from NATO allies, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will try to convince a skeptical Russia that it should back U.S. plans to step up pressure on Iran to suspend its nuclear activities.
Having won NATO endorsement to stay the course despite a new U.S. intelligence assessment that concludes Iran stopped its atomic weapons development program in 2003, Rice was to meet Friday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who has become the public face of opposition to new U.N. sanctions.

As I pointed out in my first post, opposing nuclear energy program in Iran, the U.S. has been successful in leading two rounds of U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran and is pushing for a third set of economic sanctions if the country refuses to suspend uranium enrichment.
For this purpose they need two more admissions, one from China and one from Russia.
In my first post you read how they tried to convince Chinese to accept but the result was not successful. Still, along with China, which also has opposed new U.N. sanctions, Russia appeared isolated on Iran, which long has denied it is seeking nuclear weapons and crowed that the U.S. intelligence report was a total "victory" for the country.
So they arranged a meeting, this time to have a try on Russians but it seems once more they have been unsuccessful. Because Lavrov on Wednesday said Moscow had not seen any evidence that Iran had, in fact, ever had a nuclear weapons program, not even one that it had given up on four years ago. He also criticized the United States for its missile defense plans.

As it is going on it seems this long story in near its end. May be it is better if the U.S. stop bothering himself more and accept what the others have accepted.