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As we pointed out yesterday, the Obama administration appears to be under the delusion that they’re making progress on international sanction on Iran, even though the reality is that they have not been able to rally world leaders around those sanctions. And today The Los Angeles Times is reporting on China’s most recent evasion of the Obama administration’s claims of consensus:

China insisted Tuesday that it has not shifted its approach on Iran's nuclear program, despite White House claims on Monday that Beijing had become more open to sanctions on Tehran…  Jiang Yu, a spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, told reporters in Beijing that "China has always believed that sanctions and pressure cannot fundamentally resolve the issue" of concern about Iran's nuclear program, according to the official New China News Agency.

The likelihood of China supporting any sort of economic sanctions with Iran is close to nil as the two states are closely tied economically.  In fact, China’s state-run oil company, Chinaoil, has recently sold $55 million of gasoline to Tehran, filling the void left by other oil companies.

Perhaps the Obama administration has chosen to remain willfully ignorant of such obstacles to forming a coalition capable of confronting Iran’s nuclear ambitions or maybe the Obama spin machine is simply on full speed. Either way, one thing is clear: the Obama White House has done nothing to halt Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons.