ruling council. The council has consolidated its grip on the country after Gaddafi's capture and death late last month. Russia supported an initial M. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Gaddafi and his government, but abstained from a resolution in March that allowed military intervention. The natio

tional terrorism against the United States." It would be to prevent Iran—the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism, in violation of countless M. Security Council and IAEA board of governors resolutions, and under international sanctions— from obtaining nuclear weapons. Such a proposal by President Obama woul