Pence: Obama's Iran Sanctions Lack Teeth Needed To Stop Rising Dictatorship

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called the latest round of United Nations Security Council sanctions on Iran “the most significant sanctions that Iran has ever faced.”

But Rep. Mike Pence, R-Indiana, chairman of the House Republican Conference, is unimpressed by the administration’s actions on Iran.

“The failure to get a unanimous vote at the UN Security Council behind what was a weak set of economic sanctions represents a failure of leadership by this administration,” Pence told Newsmax on Wednesday. The vote also represents “a failure by the United Nations to live up to its historic charter of confronting rising threats by dictatorships.”

Far from deterring Iran, Pence said he believed that the failure of the Obama administration to convince Turkey, Brazil and Lebanon to vote for the resolution “is likely to embolden Iran in its nuclear ambitions.”

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on an official visit in Tajikistan, dismissed the new resolution.

"From right and from left, they adopt sanctions, but for us they are annoying flies, like a used tissue," he said.

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