Posted on 06/01/2013 2:26:49 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
“The clock is ticking,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Iran on Friday, adding that Israel will do what is necessary to defend itself against the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.
Speaking to reporters at a joint news conference with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, Kerry said that he is not optimistic that Iran's upcoming presidential election will result in any change in the country's nuclear ambitions.
"I do not have high expectations that the election is going to change the fundamental calculus of Iran," Kerry said. "This is not a portfolio that is in the hands of a new president or the president; it's in the hands of the supreme leader. And the supreme leader ultimately will make that decision, I believe."
Kerry said the U.S. would continue to pursue a peaceful resolution to the impasse but warned that time is running out. Iran's persistent defiance of international demands to come clean about its nuclear program makes the world more dangerous, he said.
"Iran needs to understand that the clock is ticking," warned Kerry.
"Every month it goes by gets more dangerous. And the reality is that Israel will do what it needs to do to defend itself," he stressed.
Meanwhile on Friday, the departments of State and Treasury unveiled new sanctions on Iran, which hit companies in the Persian Gulf, Cyprus and elsewhere for helping blacklisted Iranian firms succeed in everything from securing new planes to concealing the origin of banned crude exports.
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Throw him up next to boehner and they could do a pretty cool Oompa Loomp skit.
Got carriers? Refueling stations? Covert forward bases? Air space permission? And we’re not getting them with any thanks to ticky-clock Kerry and his boss over there, either.
Kerry no one takes you or your administration seriously. I could run a better foreign policy than you and I didn’t even finish high school.
I would put good money on you.
5.56mm
Iran to Kerry: Welcome to Cambodia.
Really.... if we just keep our mouth shut... stay out of it... and support whatever decision Israel decides.... Israel will be just fine.
What a joke! Kerry is the Secretary of State I imagined he’d be.
Big-Time Terrorists Line Up To Lead Iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3024979/posts
Iran presidential candidate vows to resist West
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023441/posts
The unavoidable alternative to invading and shutting down Iran’s nuclear facilities now might be nuclear exchanges in the near future.
The following shows what our recent forefathers were capable of. They knew what works.
Denazification, cumulative review. Report, 1 April 1947-30 April 1948.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.Denazi
Lurch speaks for BO, and terror is put into the heart of Ahmabaddinnerjacket.
Kerry was an igmo back then and he’z an igmo today.
Why on earth do we allow the regurgitation of these same ol faces?
Thank you!
I hear he was so good at killin' and so fearless that he won the Purple Nipple Award - twice.
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