Posted on 08/14/2007 10:55:44 PM PDT by neverdem
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — The Bush administration is preparing to declare that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps is a foreign terrorist organization, senior administration officials said Tuesday.
If imposed, the declaration would signal a more confrontational turn in the administration’s approach to Iran and would be the first time that the United States has added the armed forces of any sovereign government to its list of terrorist organizations.
The Revolutionary Guard is thought to be the largest branch of Iran’s military. While the United States has long labeled Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism, a decision to single out the guard would amount to an aggressive new challenge from an American administration that has recently seemed conflicted over whether to take a harder line against Tehran over its nuclear program and what American officials have called its destabilizing role in Iraq.
According to European diplomats, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has warned of the move in recent conversations with European counterparts, saying that a delay in efforts to win approval from the United Nations Security Council for further economic sanctions on Iran was leaving the administration with little choice but unilateral action.
A move toward putting the Revolutionary Guard on the foreign terrorist list would serve at least two purposes for Ms. Rice: to pacify, for a while, administration hawks who are pushing for possible military action, and to further press America’s allies to ratchet up sanctions against Iran in the Security Council.
The State Department and Treasury officials are pushing for a stronger set of United Nations Security Council sanctions against members of Iran’s government, including an extensive travel ban and further moves to restrict the ability of Iran’s financial institutions to do business abroad. American officials have also been trying to get European and Asian banks to take...
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Hell YEAH!
Twelfth Imam bump
A move toward putting the Revolutionary Guard on the foreign terrorist list would serve at least two purposes for Ms. Rice: to pacify, for a while, administration hawks who are pushing for possible military action
This is what you get when the State Department fights our battles. They talk and our troops keep getting blown up.
And yes I have an answer to a better solution. Selectively target the staging areas in Iran covertly and the message would might get in their thick heads that there is no safe area.
we should smoke Ahmedjinajad in flight ,if you ask me...
do an Isoroko Yamamoto on him and call it good...
Back to you, Bob.
“we should smoke Ahmedjinajad in flight ,if you ask me...
do an Isoroko Yamamoto on him and call it good...”
Yamamoto was in charge of the IJN. Amianutjob is just a kook. Killing him won’t solve anything. I think people overestimate his power. We should whack the ruling religious council IMHO. While we’re at it, we might as well nail all the nuclear processing facilities we know of and a majority of their military (especially RG) installations.
Take a look at this if you haven’t read it yet.
Washington is a Wonder on Iran
http://iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2007&m=08&d=16&a=6
"Iranians have become accustomed to dictators, yet an incompetent despot that bases his economic policies on the future benevolence of the coming Islamic Messiah is another thing altogether."
Hope they get a change, soon.
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