Restarting the Iran ping. On or off ping list.
Posted on 08/03/2007 9:08:45 PM PDT by freedom44
Diplomats of the larger European countries such as France, Germany and the UK, have warned the US against any other possible sanctions on Iran.
The mentioned countries, as well as a number of other European estates have intensified their lobbying campaign to stop moves mandating sanctions on companies investing over $20m in energy sector in Iran while they may even cause a serious row at the World Trade Organization.
Since they are involved in a $10bn project to produce liquefied natural gas in Iran, companies such as Royal Dutch Shell and Repsol, that are searching for oil in the US territories too, will be subject to sanctions.
An EU diplomat said that if the House of Representatives ratified the bill, it would be against the WTO rules and unacceptable.
Nicholas Burns, the undersecretary for state, expressed his opposition to the bill in March. However, it seemed that the European governments wanted a stronger signal to Iran from the Bush administration at the time.
There was a quotation from Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative Washington think-tank, that there would be serious repercussions in the multilateral efforts if the US went ahead with harsher sanctions against Iran.
Time to march on Europe and save it from itself... again... well.. we might have to wait a couple of years for their new Emperor.
USA: EU is unacceptable.
More UNaccountable “diplomats” from a supra-national collective. Enablers.
FYI - NAU is coming.
It seems evident that they want the U.S. to act unilaterally. Or bilaterally, with Israel. I don’t see what else this could mean.
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Bump
Gee, we didn’t see that one coming. /s
Why are Europeans so completely swallowing the idea that if they're just NICE to Iran, all problems will be solved?
Europe is the battered wife of world politics.
EU: Sanctions for the US, NOT for Iran.
Sanctions are the MINIMUM first step.
The Europeans have a very “soft” policy !!!!!!!!
I don't read Iranian state news unless it's on FR because it's garbage. However, your interest in this piece is contagious. The quote I excerpted is a great example of why their news is bunk. The AEI is leading the state pension divestment movement and Daniella Pletka is one of the most ardent critics of the Iranian government at that institution. This article's quote implies the opposite. If you think about is, it really is a great propaganda technique... Watch this spin:
Today, Ayatollah Kahamenie, Mahmood Ahmadinejad and political rival Hashem Rafsanjani considered disbanding the Islamic Republic after dismissing the Iranian parliament and turning over authority to political prisoners the Supreme Leader intended to release from prison. Unfortunately, he was distracted by his more pressing commitments to ensure shipments of explosively formed projectiles he earlier ordered shipped to Iraq were stopped before killing any more Americans or Iraqis. Meanwhile, crowds of Iranian dissidents outside his office demanded the Supreme Leader compose a fatwa condemning Iranian Revolutionary Guards who insulted the mothers of U.S., British and Australian naval forces in the Shat Al-Arab.
It's fun to make up the news. Too bad it's unethical in the extreme.
Fine, then those facilities will be on the blacklist to be target during war against Iran. Don’t blame US, if Euroliberal employees dies in those facilities as a result of war. It’s the EU that brought them there.
As usual, it’s European greed that keeps fueling Islamic Jihad.
As long as they get their cheaper off market oil and gas, They ignore it, even if it destroy europe. It’s only their own little empires that matter.
Deja vu on Iraq all over again!
EU: More sanctions on Iran unacceptable
the same europeans that beleived... peace in our time!!!
eu usrrender monkeys eventually will all be wearing dish rags on their heads and be on their knees to muzzie headquarters 5 times a day...if they don’t lose their heads first!!!!
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