What Has Iran Done To Provoke New Sanctions?

4 Responses to What Has Iran Done To Provoke New Sanctions?

1. Tom says:

   9/25/2007 at 7:16 pm

   Hopefully Ahmahdinejad won’t return the “favor” and cut oil consumption. With the dollar weakening so fast, Bush better stop overplaying “our” hand.

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2. Tom says:

   9/25/2007 at 7:18 pm

   “consumption” was supposed to be “production” back there (sorry)

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3. Vynce says:

   9/25/2007 at 8:05 pm

   i hope he does cut production. the only way we’re going to wean ourselves is by necessity, and the more gradually that happens the less catastrophically.

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4. Iroquois says:

   9/26/2007 at 2:24 am

   I notice you don’t provide any links so here is one. You’ll notice it’s just a tweaking of a law already in place, giving Dubya less discretion.

   http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200709251353DOWJONESDJONLINE000585_FORTUNE5.htm

   you don’t seriously believe…never mind,…you understand…it’s not the holocaust denying stuff, it’s the threat Iran’s nuclear capability would pose to the region, particularly Israel, but the Sunni countries aren’t too happy either. Here’s the latest little spat between “Arab brothers” from a moderate Arab press:

   http://jordantimes.com/index.php?news=2427

   Kingdom offers no haven for Iran opposition group – Judeh

   AMMAN (JT) – Jordan on Monday rejected as “utterly baseless” news reports that it has granted asylum to members of an Iranian opposition group.

   The Kingdom “did not receive any leader or member of Mujahedin-e Khalq, and does not allow the organisation to operate on Jordanian soil as claimed by Iranian news reports”, Government Spokesperson Nasser Judeh said in remarks to the press.

   Judeh expressed shock at such allegations as well as the media campaign targeting Jordan “with the aim of attacking the Kingdom and casting doubts on its stands”.

   He added that such reports come despite efforts exerted by His Majesty King Abdullah to build brotherly relations between the two countries based on mutual respect and understanding.

   Mujahedin-e Khalq, or the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, is an Islamic socialist organisation that advocates the overthrow of Iran’s government.

   The group, which was harboured by the former Iraqi regime, is designated as a terrorist group by the US, Canada and the EU.

   Jordan and Iran restored diplomatic ties in the early 1990s after the two states severed their relations in 1980 following the outbreak of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.

   The King paid an historic visit to Tehran in September 2003.

   25 September 2007

   snarl, hiss.
   and here’s an excerpt from the 9/25 editorial:

   http://jordantimes.com/index.php?news=2414

   Hot times in the region

   The drums of war are beating once again in the Middle East. At least the rhetoric seems to have gone on high pitch.

   Iran parades its military prowess. At a recent ceremonial parade commemorating the 1980 war with Iraq, it displayed its latest models of military hardware, including a missile capable of reaching targets over 1,800 kilometres away and a new military plane.

   If anything, the Iranian leaders’ rhetoric seems provocative and threatening to the US, Israel and all countries considered to be aiding the US militarism in the region.

   The Iranian leader’s speech in New York stating he would not attack any country was also quoted in the paper (without the holocaust-denying stuff) not on the front page above the fold like the other two articles, but nested in several layers of indexing.

   Oh, yes, the Sunni countries, especially the ones seen to cooperate with the U.S.–are quite nervous.

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