BBC News - Putin warns against Iran attack
BBC News reports: "In contrast to Washington's negative response on Iran's new proposal, Russia's foreign minister described them as a positive step forward and ruled out sanctions on Iran's oil sector [...] Mr Putin, speaking in Moscow, said any attack on Iran would be 'very dangerous, unacceptable" and would lead to "an explosion of terrorism'."

Comment: This is a very interesting development which demonstrates that the Gog Alliance is forming. The Russian position seems to be no to sanctions, which are the backbone of diplomatic negotiations. Without the threat of more sanctions the current diplomatic track is meaningless. They follow that up with saying no to a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, which is the ultimate recourse if diplomacy fails to turn Iran away from their nuclear weapons program. If they say no to sanctions and no to the military option, they are basically saying: leave Iran alone. Russia is now the protector of Iran on the U.N. Security Council and they are showing defiance toward the U.S., Israel, the EU, and Israel's worried Arab (Sunni) neighbors. I don't think the Ezekiel war is imminent, but I think the close alliance between Russia and Iran shows that it may be only decades away.