Meeting with French President Francois Hollande today, President Obama vowed to cement the “forever friendship” between France and the United States. Then came the threats.
The threats to France centered around similar ones from Secretary of State John Kerry recently, that French businessmen have recently been making contacts in Iran in anticipation of the easing of sanctions.
Though easing sanctions were part of the P5+1 interim deal with Iran, and even more could be expected with a final Iran deal, US officials have been keen to downplay any improvement in ties with Iran, and have been warning companies against trying to make deals with Iranian companies.
President Hollande insisted that the companies are free to make contacts and hadn’t actually violated any sanctions, but President Obama’s pointed threats made it clear he disputes that.
Obama said any companies or nations having contact with Iran did so “at their own peril” and vowed to “come down like a ton of bricks” on them for doing so.
The day is coming when the world will tune out the President and his lunatic thugs, such as Victoria Nuland.
And that's the reason for USG giving the president of France the red carpet and WH dinner and etc?
It is also very much possible that USG wants to have some of that deals that EU, especially French, wants to get out Iranian and Europeans deals with Iran, at the same time USG needs to say something, which the threat of sanctioning France or if you will Europe. At the same time is a warning to EU social democrats, don't get your hope up wanting to rule EU or being against USG policies.
All what is happening is about growing enimacity between some European country toward USG, especially when a official US state department suggest " f..luck EU". When the German chancellor Angela Markell two weeks ago annonses, no more German partricipitation in wars and when British parliament in general against any more wars of choice presented by USG.
The US politicians must be seen to bow to the wishes of Israel. The gotta keep all the election dough flowing.
"…reason for USG giving the president of France the red carpet and WH dinner…"
Yeah, kind of like the "Red Wedding" in Game of Thrones…only Obama doesn't have the stones to follow thru with the wedding present.
Have the White House and State Department spoken to the Pentagon about this? The French food management company, Sodexo, runs the mess halls of a large number of US bases, including the sprawling Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti. Sodexo also runs kitchens in over 600 US colleges and universities. In addition, they provide food services to both the Pentagon and the State Department itself. There will be a lot of hungry people if Obama "comes down like a ton of bricks" on French companies.
Is there anyone left out there who is still clinging to the idea these are "international' sanctions rather than instruments of imperial bullying? Bastards
Funny. Obama bitch slaps his French poodle. Poodle turns the other cheek.
France is a stooge of America. USA wants a Trogen horse placed into Iran. Don't fall for the scam
Too much bullying power for one nation to have.
When they listen and do what we say, they are our bestest friends. When they defy us or chart their own course, they are "cheese eating surrender monkeys."
The point of overthrowing Iran in 1953 and installing a terror state, then when that was overthrown, waging a US/Euro/Iraqi Axis of Evil war of aggression against Iran, then illegal, murderous, terrorist sanctions Iran and lying non-stop about them pursuing nuclear weapons, these actions combined killing well over a million Iranians, was not so France could get first dibs on Iran's oil. It was so the US could control it all.
The proper response from M. Hollande to Emperor Obama regarding Obama’s threat to come down hard on French businesses negotiating deals with the Iranians: “In the immortal words of Victoria “fuck the EU” Nuland, “go fuck yourself, O!”