"Why worsen the situation by threatening sanctions and bring it to a dead end?" Putin said in a veiled reference to the U.S. push for harsher international sanctions. "It's not the best way to resolve the situation by running around like a madman with a razor blade in his hand."

That would be the US that Putin is describing as a madman with a razor. Whee! We're a rogue state!

US slaps broad new sanctions on Iran - Yahoo! News