Driven by hawkish French President Nicolas Sarkozy and faced with increasingly absurd warnings about the Iranian “threat” from the Obama Administration, the European Union today announced what is being called the “toughest Iran sanctions ever.”
The sanctions will be a massive change for the EU, which has generally allowed civilian trade with Iran, and will put it more in line with the United States, which has all but embargoed much of the Iranian economy.
Officials voting in favor of the measure cited Iran’s “refusal” to negotiate with the Obama Administration, with one of them praising Obama’s “clear, genuine efforts” to talk with Iran.
These efforts included the US demanding that Iran agree to a third party enrichment deal in October, pushing sanctions at the UN for refusing to sign the deal, and then angrily rejecting Iran’s offer to sign the deal just months later. Administration officials have been very open about the “diplomacy” with Iran being anything but genuine, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeatedly saying it was about convincing Europe that diplomacy wouldn’t work, not about reaching a deal. It seems it has been successful.
Russia grudgingly supported the trimmed down UN Security Council sanctions under the assumption they would be it, but in the next week both the US and EU have announced massive new unilateral moves. Russia warns that the moves are doing harm to the UN Security Council measures and could damage future diplomacy.
Russia could mend this perfidious acts of US and Europe installing the S-300 missile defensive system.It is clear that Israel pushes for only a war of NATO against Iran and neither other sokution would not satisfied them.Russia,China,Brasil and still some 180 countries may show an opposition to the mad dogs who engineers wars and catastrophes in chain.
This is real face of followers and it was expected. Our Prophet (PUBH) said,:" help victimsand opresser i.e wrong doers the companions asked O Prophet to help the victims we understand but to help wrong.-doers, he said if you stop them doing so will be help to cruels or wrong doers. If Eurpeans were weise enough have discussed and tried to teach Americans is counter productive.
I will in place of Iran will help rebels in Afghanistan and Irak to kick americans out of the region. They have money and borders are too big. So for they helping americans for their brutality but can chang.
My guess is, that the EU is paying the US for assistance in keeping the "economy" (roll over of debts) alive. Alas in the process keeping the bad guys in power. With a global economy, any trace of morals in politics are next to keeping up the economy, or more precisely: The belief in normality in the population notwwithstanding a most unbalanced and critical balance beyond any single government's control. Which is the reality of a global economy.
China was wiser in makling certain the government (the party) is stronger than any allowed economic player in the country. Precisely the same, as the centuries old prohibiting of the emperors of China of merchant wessels over a certaing size, to keep companies manageable in size and unable to threaten the legitimate government, or even run the government over.
When the reality is like that, you get precisely such new forms of governance: big market players instead of by legitimate national action. You also clearly see a new type of humans, because it becomes possible: internationally super-rewarded leaders grabbing the profits from economic rights – defended by governments – rather than from market conditions.
When was it last time that EU or US initiated ANY diplomatic move? Even the smallest? Even the last year proposal on moving the uranium to France was, as it is now made clear, only a ruse. It was meant to take the uranium, and for France that would not be the first time to act in bad faith. Now that the real, genuine escrow was agreed upon with Turkey and Brazil, the deal is angrily rejected. The anger, I suppose comes from the farce being exposed. Now nobody can say that there was some diplomatic solution offered. All lies and deceptions, but who profits? Who is it that is so single minded on war? And how many more homes will have to be foreclosed due to the articifally induced liqudity crisis preventing homes to be sold, and making prices plummet? That "liquidity" is needed elsewhere, for war I presume. What else?
The EU is broke anyway. The US only hurts ITSELF with boycotts and sanctions. Sanctions are stupid in this day and age. As long as Iran can trade with China and Russia and Brazil and Turkey they'll be fine. The EU and America are done. They're bankrupt!
russia is probably sliding them a few sunburn missles and some of those 700 mph torpedos, that would create some excitement