Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the United Nations headquarters in New York on March 8 that Moscow remains opposed to sanctions against Iran following the decision by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to forward its report on Iran\'s nuclear program to the Security Council, news agencies reported. He argued that the international community \"should act in a way that would not risk losing the IAEA capacity and possibility to continue to work in Iran, [and] to continue to clarify those questions which relate to the past Iranian nuclear program. It is very important for the international community and for the [nuclear] nonproliferation regime to get answers to these questions.\" He repeated Russia\'s position that \"that there is no military solution to this crisis,\" and added the same is true of the position of the United Kingdom and Germany, \"as [has been] publicly stated by their ministers. I don\'t think sanctions, as a means to solve a crisis, have ever achieved a goal in the recent history.\" (RFE/RL)