Top Obama aide Gary Samore today condemned Iran’s willingness to engage in diplomacy with the United States as a “ploy” and said that the United States is going to respond with a series of retaliatory sanctions to punish them for it and to test Iran’s “pain threshold.”
A previous series of talks held earlier this week ended with no actual deal, but an agreement to hold further meetings next month in Turkey. At the time officials lauded the agreement for additional talks as great success.
Now, however, it seems that having won a second round of talks is itself enough of a slight that the Obama Administration is up in arms and moving for more sanctions. This may be difficult at this point, however, as the US has already sanctioned so much of the Iranian economy that little of any meaning is left untouched.
It does suggest that the next round of talks will be met with considerably more hostility than the last one, and a third round will likely not be approved, lest it be spun as more proof of an Iranian scheme.
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obama wants war not talks.
More sanctions ! And yet no one has figured out exactly what sanctions are for – for the possibility that Iran may have the knowledge to be able to produce the material to make a bomb ? Or that their leader may possibly have expressed some vague sort of doubt about the Holocaust ? Or simply that Iranians are religious fanatics and can't be trusted not to commit global suicide to affirm their faith ?
USA should vehemently question Israeli nuclear arsenal.
Our double standard is stunning.
Caption for that photo: "I want jew!"
The only thing both parties support is endless Wars for Israel, it all started nearly a decade ago under a false flag attack.
9/11 and Israel, here: http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.asp…
damned if they do, and damned if they don't