Speaking today amid the latest international push, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that it would be a “tragedy for the Iranian people” to apply additional sanctions to the nation. Then, Chancellor Merkel called for more sanctions.
Germany has been one of the most eager supporters of additional sanctions among the P5+1 and declared last week, after a high profile meeting with Israeli officials that they supported any and all efforts to increase sanctions against Iran. Though Chinese objections will make UN sanctions impossible, Germany has expressed openness to other routes, including hinting at unilateral sanctions.
Despite the Merkel government’s hawkish stance on Iran, several German companies have important contracts inside Iran. One of those companies, the Hamburg Company, today announced that it was canceling a deal to renovate the Bandar Abbas Port. The company, part owned by the German government, cited pressure from the Israeli government as driving the decision.
Some other German companies without direct ties to the government are less willing to go along with the policy, however. Many of the companies are expressing annoyance at the government’s meddling in business deals not covered by existing sanctions, and are angrily opposing unilateral sanctions which might force them to abandon existing deals to companies in other nations.
Merkel is a right-wing zealot and puppet of the Bush-Cheney Axis. Her love affair with Netanyahu is a matter of record. While attempting to drawn down German forces from the NATO occupation of Afghanistan, she is now calling for sanctions on Iran. Shameful.
Merkel is a Hebrew and Germans made a big mistake electing her. she won not by Qualification but on the same Platform Hillary just about slipped into the White House, because she is a Woman. yes, the same Hillary that refuses to admit that she is part of the Bilderberg Group. woman always have the tendency to vote for a Woman, qualification for the Job dont matter. Merkel needs a new publicity photo, she looks like she has a hang over. or it might be the guilt of sending innocent Germans to die ib this 100 year War.
wen man ein loch fur Chancelor walt kan man nur scheise erwarten
The German guilt complex concerning Israel and Jews in general is truly astounding and is really pathological.
If only folks would know that France Germany UK Poland USA are a dangerous gang combination.
USA is a spent force now and so is UK but watch out for Sarkosy/Merkel France/Germany. Female or Male does not matter,it's who controls them. Any guesses? The back ground of Sarkosy is something to fear,you wonder how the french got duped in voting for him.Remember the party selects the leader not the citizens :^/
The gov'ts of all Nato nations are almost totaly staffed with people of that background, especially the white house and the gov. of france.
Obama's True Options in Iran: Beyond War and Sanctions
Whether Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize or not, he was given the award because of his new approach to the Middle East, including his strategy in Iran. Military intervention is the MO if the United States, but Obama and his commanders realize that open war in Iran is NOT a viable option. However, Obama has many options on his plate, including sanctions.
Obama realizes that sanctions in the past have not worked. Sanctions in Iran, in Cuba, and even sanctions against Iraq before the 2003 invasion, have not created the results that the United States would like. The first problem is that sanctions often hurt the poor more than the regime. The second problem is that not all nations cooperate with sanctions. The third problem is that those in power have a tenacious ability to get what they want, regardless of sanctions.
Obama has a new plan. He wants to target sanctions against the Iranian Republican Guard, Hamas, and Hezbollah. He has already clamped down on smuggling operations in the area, and he believes that if he follows this up with sanctions against the elites and the military arm of the regime, he can ease the pain of the common person while weakening the regime.
Obama and Hillary Clinton have also spoken often of the importance of supporting internet and communication freedom in places like China and Iran. Senator Richard Lugar has written about the importance of social media in dictatorial regimes. Obama can use the intelligence resources of the United States to outhack Iran, allowing the people of Iran to make their own decisions about the countries future, independant from government sanctions or direct Western intervention and Imperialism.
Read more about it at: James the Hype – Dissecting the News for a Curious World
http://jamesthehype.blogspot.com/2010/01/obamas-t…
But, of course, your comments make so much sense. Now I see the light. The only reason why the American ruling establishment takes so much interest in the affairs of the Middle East is because it desperately wants to bring freedom, liberty, justice and prosperity to the masses of little people who forever suffer under the jackboot tyranny of so many despots and dictators. In fact, that is why the American ruling establishment maintains over 800+ military bases around the world and has waged war for over eight long years in both Iraq and Afghanistan. And that is why the ruling establishment in America has recently bombed the smithereens out of parts of Pakistan and Yemen. Yes, our glorious and benighted ruling establishment does all of these things motivated only by its love and concern for the “common person” and “poor” in the Middle East. What utter balderdash! Don’t you know that everything the American ruling establishment does in the Middle East is motivated only by their insatiable desire for evermore money and power! Do you think the readers and posters at Antiwar just fell off the cabbage wagon or something? Please, don’t insult our intelligence with such dribble.
The Europeans are as morally bankrupt as the Americans. Why no sanctions against the murderous war criminal Israelis? The Israelis scream about the "anti-semitism" of the citizen boycott against them, but they're pushing for sanctions against Muslims.
not content with killing innocent civillians in Afganistan merkel wants to put more misery on Iran. its like the the days of hitler. but dont for get merkel hitler lost.
DJWhite seems to want to ignore “the facts on the ground” as Bush so cynically put it. No 800 pound AIPAC gorilla sitting in the room for old DJ. Only the interests of the Likud party are worth discussing.
And to top it off, Obama’s reason for getting the peace prize is his desire for sactions on Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah! All sworn enemies of Al Quida but legitimate targets for his oxymoron peace initiative because they are targets of Israel.
This is the kind of drivel our idiot American Public is fed. And they eat it up.
This does not surprise me. Together, the ruling establishments of both America and Europe have brought on the greatest worldwide economic depression since the 1930's. Beware: as the current worldwide depression worsens, they will attempt to divert the attention of their peoples from their own horrendous economic failures by taking America and Europe into even more wars. More than likely, this will result in a war with Iran. Make no mistake, both America and Europe are presently controlled by some of the most insatiably greedy, power-hungry and evil sociopaths the world has ever known. They are drunk with hubris and power. They are…insane.