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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Clinton wants Saudis to prod China on Iran sanctions AFP - Sunday, February 14 Send IM Story Print Two Iranians work at the nuclear facilities in Isfahan. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew Sunday to the Gulf to ask for oil-rich Saudi Arabia's help in pressing China to join the US drive for sanctions against Iran's disputed nuclear program, aides said. SHANNON, Ireland (AFP) - – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew Sunday to the Gulf to ask for oil-rich Saudi Arabia's help in pressing China to join the US drive for sanctions against Iran's disputed nuclear program, aides said. The chief US diplomat's three-day trip to Qatar and Saudi Arabia is also aimed at enlisting broader regional support, including Turkey's, in a drive to stop Iran's sensitive nuclear work, her aides told reporters. Her mission comes amid US security buildup involving the deployment of anti-missile systems in the Gulf as well as a flurry of high-level visits to the region by senior US diplomats and military officials. Clinton's aides neither confirmed nor denied suggestions that they would ask Saudi leaders to offer China, which imports much of its oil from Iran, supply guarantees in return for winning Beijing's support for new UN sanctions. "Saudi Arabia has an important trading relationship with China already," Jeffrey Feltman, Clinton's top diplomat for the Middle East, told reporters en route to Doha, via Shannon, Ireland. Feltman noted that there have been a number of recent visits between the Gulf and China. "We would expect them (the Saudis) to use these visits, to use their relationship in ways that can help increase the pressure that Iran feels," said Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs. China appears to be the strongest holdout to sanctions among the five veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council, which also include the United States, Russia, Britain and France. Moscow has hardened its stance toward Iran lately. In Doha, aides said, Clinton will discuss Iran but also the Arab-Israeli peace process with Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Qatar's emir, and Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani, who is both foreign minister and prime minister. She will hold similar talks with other Muslim leaders attending the seventh US-Islamic World Forum, where Clinton will deliver remarks building on President Barack Obama's own speech in Cairo last year calling for a "new beginning" with Muslim communities worldwide. Clinton's spokesman Philip Crowley said the chief US diplomat will discuss Iran with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "We obviously need to have Turkey's support as we move forward and contemplate particular actions on the pressure track," Crowley said. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is due to visit Iran next week to push for a diplomatic solution to the stand-off over Iran's refusal to curb its uranium enrichment program. The West fears the program masks a drive to build an atomic bomb, while Iran denies the charge and says its goal is the peaceful use of nuclear power. Turkey, the only NATO member that neighbors Iran, insists the row should be resolved through dialogue, arguing that economic sanctions or military action against Iran would have a damaging impact on the whole region. China has taken a similar stand. During her stop in Riyadh on Monday, Clinton is set to meet Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud and Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal. Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East advisor in past US administrations, doubts the Saudis would offer oil guarantees to China, whose economy is growing rapidly, to encourage Beijing to change its stance on sanctions. Miller told AFP US-Saudi ties have eroded since the September 11, 2001 attacks -- which involved many Saudi members of Al-Qaeda -- and Obama has disappointed Riyadh with his failure so far to revive Arab-Israeli peace talks. In an apparent switch in emphasis on the Arab-Israeli peace process, the Obama administration is urging Gulf Arab leaders to offer Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas political and financial support to revive peace talks with Israel. Last year, the administration urged Gulf Arab states to take steps toward normalizing ties with Israel, such as allowing the Israeli airline El Al to fly over their territories. The aides omitted to mention such a step as the Arabs accuse Washington of failing to follow through on its demand for Israel to halt settlements. However, Feltman and Crowley urged Arab states like Qatar, Bahrain, Morocco and Mauritania to reopen Israeli trade offices in their capitals after they were closed in protest over Israeli military actions against the Palestinians. During her tour, Clinton is scheduled to meet with the board of directors of the controversial Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television and answer questions from Arabs and Muslims in "town-hall style" events broadcast on television. US officials said visits to the region this month involve top diplomats James Steinberg, Jacob Lew and William Burns. 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