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Iranian Leader Dismisses U.N. Sanctions as 'Annoying Flies' [Mullahs Deliver US Ultimate Insult]
Wall St. Journal ^ | June 09, 2010

Posted on 06/09/2010 9:16:42 PM PDT by Steelfish

Iranian Leader Dismisses U.N. Sanctions as 'Annoying Flies' June 09, 2010

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. and its allies scored a long-sought victory Wednesday by pushing through new U.N. sanctions over Iran's nuclear program, punishments Tehran dismissed as "annoying flies, like a used tissue."

The sanctions target Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, ballistic missiles and nuclear-related investments. Oil exports, the lifeblood of Iran's economy, are not affected because targeting them would have cost the U.S. essential support from Russia and China.

President Barack Obama said the sanctions are the toughest Iran has ever faced. They required several months of difficult negotiations by the five veto-wielding permanent U.N. Security Council members — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France — and non-member Germany. This is the fourth round of sanctions aimed at getting Iran into serious discussions on its nuclear ambitions.

"Actions do have consequences, and today the Iranian government will face some of those consequences," Obama said. He left the door open to diplomacy but said Iran "will find itself more isolated, less prosperous and less secure" unless it meets its obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on an official visit in Tajikistan, dismissed the new resolution. "From right and from left, they adopt sanctions, but for us they are annoying flies, like a used tissue," he said.

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1 posted on 06/09/2010 9:16:42 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

I wonder when the UN inspectors will come in and Olbermann will chide Obama for not listening to them? Oh, that’ll never, ever happen.


2 posted on 06/09/2010 9:21:47 PM PDT by wac3rd (Gulf oil spews...Obama sues.)
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To: Steelfish

H KKKlintler put the ****ers on quadruple secret probation??


3 posted on 06/09/2010 9:24:22 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: Steelfish

Sodom Hussein and kiM Jong I’ll redux


4 posted on 06/09/2010 9:26:39 PM PDT by sappy
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To: Steelfish
For Ahmadinejad to characterize sanctions as only “annoying flies” is much more than bravato. Sanctions have only been effective within the rarified atmosphere of academic seminars, and only when they could point to a country or organization that possessed a moral compass. The most severe sanctions ever applied against a morally bankrupt country were the bombing campaigns of the U.S. and Brits against Germany. In his book Inside the Third Reich Albert Speer said, “After two and a half years, in spite of the beginning of heave bombing, we had raised our entire armaments production from an average index figure of 98 for the year 1941 to a summit of 322 in July 1944. During the same period the labor force expanded by only about 30 percent. We had succeeded in doubling the output of labor.”
5 posted on 06/09/2010 9:26:54 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: Steelfish

They better be careful! We have a President who “kicks ass”!


6 posted on 06/09/2010 9:32:49 PM PDT by pankot
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To: Steelfish

The Camel Cowboys are feeling their oats.


7 posted on 06/09/2010 9:40:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Bush made me do it!" - Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Steelfish

Hard to disagree with Nutjob on that one.


8 posted on 06/09/2010 9:40:31 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Steelfish
Amamadnutjob sounds like someone featured on an episode of The Soup.
9 posted on 06/09/2010 9:44:23 PM PDT by jonrick46 (We're being water boarded with the sewage of Fabian Socialism.)
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To: Steelfish

we need to use the Neutron Bomb on Qum
at the next big meeting of the Mullaocracy


10 posted on 06/09/2010 9:45:41 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Steelfish
So when do they send Hans Brix to Tehran


11 posted on 06/09/2010 9:46:03 PM PDT by dfwgator
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