White House Declares New ‘Deadline,’ Threatens More Sanctions Against Iran
House Already Pushing Forward With Yet Another Sanctions Bill
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs announced today that the US has made the end of the year the “new deadline” for the Iranian government to move to avoid yet more sanctions against them.
The Obama Administration has announced a myriad of deadlines demanding Iran to take various actions, but the sanctions push has moved more or less unabated in both situations where Iran met the deadlines or when they missed them.
In this case, the House of Representatives is already moving on yet more sanctions against Iran, with author Howard Berman (D-CA) hoping to have the latest sanctions voted on before the holiday recess.
Exactly what the deadline is expecting Iran to do this time isn’t even clear. Iran held talks with the West in October, but a deal was never reached and Iran’s call for additional talks was met with an IAEA condemnation. Since the condemnation Iran has ruled out additional talks.
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Jane Doe
December 4th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
I used to live in Berman's district: people in the district would hold antiwar protests outside his house.
I say that's a good tactic — hold pictures of dead Iraqi/ Afghan children and embarrass the crap out of pro-war congresspeople as their guests arrive for Hannukah. Then wave them up and down in front of the windows as they attempt to eat.
Then have a new set of gross pictures ready for them as they exit.
Call the press first and harass them until they cover the protest. Get someone to take footage and put it on youtube and also take stills and send them to websites like whatreallyhappened.com
These big protests don't work. I say we start on a local level and get these assbites where they live.
I'm going to call that wanker Berman's office and tell him to go represent Israel in Israel.
Oldtimer
December 4th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Untill terroristic Israel gives up it's illeagl nuclear bombs and submits to IAEA inspections, they have no right to complain about Iran or anybody else.
issa
December 4th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Right on brother, and they are doing it with the blessing of USA, the congress is bought by AIPAC and obama has surronded himself with the "chosen ones". Stay tuned for more wars.
andy
December 4th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
"Time is running out for Iran"…. (translation)…the lobby wants a war.
zouppie
December 5th, 2009 at 12:50 am
the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). must be coming on line. And since it takes a B-52 or B-2 to deliver it, the USA will have to do the heavy lifting and drop the damn things on the Iranian nuclear facility.. So we will probably soon be engaged in another war for those who can't be criticized.
Doru
December 5th, 2009 at 2:09 am
The real deadline is the instalation of the S-300 Russian ground-to-air missiles around Iran , the same hardware that defends Moscow … Sure , I would be cocky too once those missiles are active and so let;s watch the Iranian retoric escalate as a sign of readyness .
In turn , the Mossad and CIA have a narrow gap , a sweet time frame , in which to double score taking out in one strike both the newlly installed yet not on-line S-300s and the nuclear facilities ,
Yet there is also a golden opportunity to bring Iran back into the stone age : some coalition planes get shot-down ' accidentally ' over the oil terminals while the nukes on board were already armed …
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