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Saturday, April 16. 2011

The "Illusion of sanctions" on Iran

"Chinese firms dominate Iran oil exhibition" reports AFP wire service, but, also,



"The number of foreign companies are up 35 percent," to 496 out of the total 1,550, he said.


He said that despite UN sanctions and bilateral punitive measures by the United States and the European Union against Iran, "Germany is present with 64 companies, Italy with 36, Britain with 37, Spain with 14, France with 15 and South Korea with 33 companies."...


"The strong participation of foreign companies is a response to the illusion of (Western) sanctions," quipped the oil official.


While Iran forments trouble throughout the Middle East, and arms and directs Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas, Western and Chinese companies supply the cash to do so.

Posted by Bruce Kesler at 18:13 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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i'm pretty much certain that before Obama pushed the sanctions part III, he had already canvasses those folks at the exhibition and had made sure that the initiative would fail so utterly that it would make a huge fool of Uncle Sam and further shovel dirt on Israel's pitiful hopes for avoiding a big war.

You can safely bet that with this administration, coarse, feckless, ugly humiliation will always be the minimum effect of whatever disconnected foreign-policy episode of ''assertiveness'' selected to provide plausible-deniability of hidden-agenda.


These guys are the 1919 Black Sox, but ''say it ain't so, joe'' is no good this time --joe don't care, he can't BE shamed. And the world series this time ain't baseball.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal

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#1 buddy larsen on 2011-04-17 00:37 (Reply)
Oh, those EVIIIIIIIL sanctions!
#2 Sam L. on 2011-04-19 12:43 (Reply)

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