Obama Vows Haste in New Iran Sanctions
Pentagon Says 'Time Is of the Essence'
Western officials, and the United States in particular, have vowed to rapidly move forward with new sanctions against Iran in the United Nations Security Council. President Barack Obama said the effort is moving quickly and that new sanctions will be in place soon.
Which would suit Secretary of Defense Robert Gates just fine, as Pentagon spokesmen insisted the secretary believes “time is of the essence” and say he has demanded the sanctions within “weeks, not months.”
The United States was already pressing for the sanctions in the UN Security Council for months, but President Obama said Iran’s recent announcement that it will attempt to produce fuel rods for medical isotopes proved Iran was abandoning “their posturing that their nuclear power is only for civilian use.” Obama also insisted Iran had “ignored his offer of engagement.”
In reality, however, Iran had been calling for additional talks with the West for months, and last week accepted the “draft” agreement presented by the US, only for Western officials to condemn them for that acceptance. It was only when it became clear that the third party enrichment deal would not be in place in time to provide them with fuel for the Tehran medical reactor that Iran announced its intention to aim for self-sufficiency.
And while President Obama expressed confidence that the “whole world” was in agreement on isolating Iran, China remains very much in doubt. The most recent statements from China’s foreign ministry indicate that they believe the sanctions would harm efforts at diplomacy, and the prospect of a Chinese veto could still prevent these sanctions from ever taking shape.
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epppie
February 10th, 2010 at 5:52 am
I keep asking myself over and over, when is the Left going to wake up to the fact that this guy is not only a warmonger, but a first class warmonger?
Robert Fisher
February 10th, 2010 at 7:22 am
time for the Soldiers to realize that they are being used. It's Time to come home Boys, hand over your Weapons to the House of Representatives and let them take your place. the Wars will be over within Hours.
guarantied.
mrraven
February 10th, 2010 at 7:36 am
I was there over 10 months ago, sadly our local antiwar group was nothing but a shell for the Democratic party.
IP Blocked
February 10th, 2010 at 8:59 am
Well, I was going to say something about the article, then donate some money and maybe start to use the Antiwar link to order from Amazon (which I do often to send stuff to my son overseas), but, why in the fcuk would I do that when I can not even comment on a story.
Simply because the Jew-loving Moderator has essentially blocked my IP number.
pwi
February 10th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Who else will anti-war people vote for? No third party canidate will ever have a chance in this day and age, You can vote for Kucinich all day long and twice on Sunday and it won't matter, and leftists don't tend to vote republican (also it does not seem like much of a difference on war and foreign policy anyway) so do you give your votes to a third party? not vote? what?
See Obama and the Democrats can discount you guys because you have no other choice.
pwi
February 10th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Yes but eventually the game changes, you can't always pick on the same country such as Iran. People will eventually lose interest. Eventually like Iraq it must be attacked or it becomes Cuba ( a target for 40 years and most Americans simply yawn now). Then you pick a new player in the game and play that hand for 30 years or so.
Iran is coming close to outliving its usefullness in the game.
Ali
February 10th, 2010 at 6:29 am
This is all a game. Don't worry , U.S won't attack Iran. Why would they? Each time Ahmadi says something the price of oil goes up (chevron loves it) and Arab countries buy more weapons from U.S . We all know current regim in Iran is actually good for U.S business.
Ali
February 10th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
that's where you are wrong. Look at Iran's history, up to WWI we were raped by russians, from WWI to WWII british sucked our blood, from WWII to 1979 revolution USA took what they could. Since revolution we have been had by Chinese and Russians. Walk in Iran's streets and you see all the shops are flooded with Chinese merchandize. Our military has spent billions buying from russians. And you know what? Iran is not inocent itself, we do the same to Palestinians, Lebenese and Syrians and a bunch of poor African countries. This is about business. Ask Russia and China, they sat aside for years rotting in their communist idealogy, now they understand it's just a business and started influencing other countries internal affairs for their own benefit. Using people like you to put the attention on U.S while supporting dictators like Ahmadinejad and Khamenei in Iran.
louis a goretti
February 10th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
robert spoken like a true asshole
Ali
February 10th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
put the guilt on poor soldiers who are following orders. Nice going.
sandy
February 10th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
i see nothing wrong with robert's statement. he is stating that our congressional leaders would not go fight, nor do they send their children to fight these endless battles. (with rare exceptions).
you aren't going to see obama's or biden's children over there fighting.
sandy
February 10th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
make no mistake,- economic sanctions are acts of aggression
pwi
February 10th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Well China is the worlds largest exporter so its not a shock that your stores are filled with made in china stuff, so are ours and you have to buy military equipment from somebody, might as well be the Russians, some of their stuff isn't half bad.
As I said Iran is coming close to outliving its usefullness in the game.
Threatening War with Iran | The Beacon
February 10th, 2010 at 10:33 am
[...] his diplomatic tone, has reverted back to the standard establishment approach. His administration is promising a new round of crushing [...]
humanist_xy
February 10th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Hey …watch out……these are critical times….the danger of a real war is looming over Iran.
You have to ask yourself who are the Iranian enemies and what are they up to?
Go to http://www.theraceforiran.com watch carefully the video on World Public Opinion . There you will find out the hoopla of June election was concocted by determined enemies of Iran who will settle for no less than a war similar to 1991, 2003 Iraq wars setting Iran back for decades.
There you’ll find out “Ahmadinejad won the election by a very wide margin”. Hence your mature and civilized duty is to accept the will of the majority not allowing yourself to be used as a pawn of the neocons.
No doubt, the Iranian regime is backward, corrupt and can never stand the tides of history. This is not the right time to protest the legitimacy of IRI, You have to waitt until the dangers of war are disintegrated, then the whole world will back you up in achieving a real secular democracy.
wolvedrive
February 10th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
yeah Iraq was our" boy once too,until, well need we(i) say more,except maybe, this full speed ahead both ends against the middle
wolvedrive
February 10th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
TALKS,talk,talking,oo i got an idea,chat the Israeleezs up they luv to "TALKS,they could talk about bad medicine forever and ever and all the presige included with the purchase of every slow motion warhead,aka nuclear medicine,besides its' not really a "BOMB so much as a slow motion warhead spewed out upon the face of the underworld,nuclear medicine,oh good now it'll be ok to make everybody sick just with yer very presance alone,sick for the cure indeed,and argument # 2 that prolifferation will ensue outta thair non-alignned racket,like for exzample,,,SouthAfrica(the racist ape bomb,as seen in beneath the planet of the snake ape half animal ht-"breds)or India or Pakistain or any other balance of power arrainged to exstract petro resources to keep up with the Hawaiin & Japaneese,spinning into half lives fated for pollution slavery and oblivion's scattered dustineyies,a horses' _ss all the way down the tooled out party line,political grandstanding ,wnd what they used to accuse Libya of,"BRINKMANSHIP,so now 2-10-10,zion metro incorperated seeks to start sh_t up with Damascus,to exspand thair wi-fi propaganda broadcast spewage zone (perfectally macheesmo)the god less demonic entity,don't dish it out unless ya know the rest,blame it on the eastern medaterrian petroluem consortium & concern,or a failed state masquaraiding as a welfare religous police state/terratory,hypocracy all the way around
zouppie
February 11th, 2010 at 12:55 am
Yes let us hurry. We must get sanctions in place quickly. Israel is a harsh master who must be obeyed instantly. Since they own up and control us, we can't dawdle. Time to send more young Americans into the grinder. I know the U.S. capitol is the worlds most perverse of all whorehouses, But where did we find this sissy punk?
Robert Fisher
February 11th, 2010 at 6:25 am
Obama would not even inject the H1N1 anti virus in his Children while encouraging everybody else to take the shot. naturally he would never send them off to War. the Vietnam war came to an end when Soldiers finally put down their Weapons and refused to enlist. Absolutely no Politicians went over there to carry on the Fight. we can do so again…. oh sorry i forgot, there are no Jobs to come home to this time.