Posted on 05/19/2007 7:47:45 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Japan freezes more Iranian assets over its nuclear plan
TOKYO: Japan decided on Friday to freeze the assets of more Iranian individuals and institutions in line with United Nations sanctions aimed at persuading Tehran to stop nuclear enrichment, which could be used to make an atomic bomb.
Fifteen Iranian individuals and 13 institutions designated by a UN resolution as being involved with Iran’s nuclear programme will be added to a list of those whose assets have already been frozen, the government said. The UN Security Council has imposed two rounds of sanctions on Iran since December, but Tehran has refused to halt work on enriching uranium, saying the process is used to fuel power plants to produce electricity.
Iran has installed 1,600 centrifuges used for enriching uranium and is set to introduce more as part of its nuclear programme, according to a senior Iranian official quoted by Iran’s Mehr News Agency. “We need to take strong measures given the need to maintain a non-proliferation framework, its ties to the North Korean nuclear issue and its impact on the stability of the Middle East,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki told a news conference.
Japan will also freeze fresh grant aid or yen loans to Iran, except for humanitarian and development purposes, Shiozaki added. Resource-poor Japan has found itself in a bind between the need to meet its energy requirements and its desire to stay in line with Washington, its closest security ally. But officials have said they would not allow Tehran to possess nuclear weapons nor compromise that position because of Iran’s rich oil resources. reuters
Ping!
Gosh, for the life of me, I just can't BEGIN to fathom why Japan, of all countries, would ever take the possibility of a rogue nation with nukes seriously.
Cheers!
PING North korea list
Chia pet and Iranian leader going be roaney
Ping!
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IRAN recently publically proclaimed that:
“It’s time for the world to start imagining a world without an America in it”
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CLINTON publically proclaimed after the Attacks of 9/11 that:
“There may not even be an America around in 300 years”
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And thus THE Battle for the 21st Century has just been enjoined by our Enemies,
...from both without & within.
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FoX News Channel President ROGER AILES recently proclaimed on CSPAN-TV:
“GOD help a world without an America in it”
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4-Sure, 4-SURE.
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Fred Thompson voted to punish Japan for its internal trade-related industrial practices while rewarding China with MFN status.
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The greatest dangers now facing America in this new time of war:
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1) IRAN with a Nuclear Weapon
2) The GULLIBILITY of the American People
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....Conservative Columnist THOMAS SEWELL, guesting on the Salem Broadcasting Christian Talk Radio Network - May 2007
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Japan seems to take nuclear weapons seriously, for some reason...
They would congregate in huge crowds --sometimes as many as 1,000-- at major Tokyo train stations and parks. They would deal counterfeit phone cards (those are cards you use to make a call at a public telephone) and sometimes drugs.
It got seriously out of hand but today they've almost all disappeared and gone away.
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