Syria, Iran protected by selfish nations

Syria, Iran protected by selfish nations: China and India, ignoring Western sanctions, continue buying oil from Iran at a furious rate. [...] after European Union sanctions took effect July 1, both countries actually began purchasing even more Iranian oil. [...] look at what they do and you'll see that actually they're totally self-interested. Nearly half the nation's children suffer from stunting, meaning they don't grow properly physically or mentally because of malnutrition during infancy. Meantime, the government estimates that Chinese citizens last year staged at least 180,000 "mass incidents," as the government calls them - large local protests over corruption, land seizures, pollution, job safety and a dozen other social ills. On July 21, President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill branding foreign-funded nongovernmental organizations as "foreign agents," authorizing potentially obtrusive regulation of organizations including Oxfam, Doctors of the World and the International Committee of the Red Cross. In just the last two months he has signed bills authorizing draconian fines for people who protest against him. On July 20, his courts sentenced three young women, members of a punk rock group, to six more months in prison on top of four already served, for criticizing Putin in a song.