Sanctions Against Iran Not Working, White House Admits
Donilon Urges More Sanctions
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
To that end, President Obama’s National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon today conceded at a conference at the Brookings Institute that even though massive US sanctions on Iran have done serious harm to the nation’s economy, they have not led to Iran “fundamentally altering its behavior.”
Donilon then, continuing his speech, went on to back President Obama’s current plan to impose addition sanctions on Iran, providing no justification for why he thought this might lead to anything resembling a policy change.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry responded to the latest round of sanctions by insisting, in case anyone wasn’t paying attention, that the sanctions won’t do anything to change their current policies, saying the effort “will be in vain.”
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Aarky
November 22nd, 2011 at 7:25 pm
We have to ask who is pulling the levers from behind the curtain to try to put more sanctions in place? Russia, China, and other countries will not abide by the stupid US policies on behalf of the Isrealis and their propagandists.
MoT
November 23rd, 2011 at 5:41 am
Not "working"? Great. Now we'll hear more screeching for the NEED to do something worse.
baz
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:11 am
countries under sanctions dont just roll over and die. Case and point Cuba, CHina…IRAQ!
Sam
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:28 am
China, America's banker is Iran's biggest trade partner.
Reza
November 23rd, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Do you know how much trade is between whole US and Iran’s central bank(Bank e Markazi) ?
-NOTHING , ZERO , 0 , Sefr !!!
Do you know how much trade is between whole UK and Iran’s central bank(Bank e Markazi) ?
-NOTHING , ZERO , 0 , Sefr !!!
could you tell me what a sanction on Iran means by these countries?
Iran’s economy have been ruined !! yes of course because Iran have Government budget surplus of 6.8 billion US dollars and have Annual account balance of +70.797 billion dollars in surplus(by International Monetary Fund)
and,
@baz of course WE won’t die of hunger!, Iran has 76,500 km2 of irrigated land which is 5th in the world.
davidgrayling
November 23rd, 2011 at 3:49 pm
The starvation and death created in Iraq via sanctions is about to be imposed on Iran. Its immorality is profound.
Of course, Israel accumulated hundreds of nukes and not a world was said. There's a heavy smell of hypocrisy in the air. The insanity sweeping America seems infinite. Is there no one there who is rational?
http://www.dangerouscreation.com
johnnyreb
November 23rd, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Good for China. Glad that at least one country is not controlled by Israel!