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U.S. to block new sanctions on Iran
Jihad Watch —
... A new and disquieting Which-Side-Is-Obama-On Update. Let Iran do what it wants! What could go wrong? "Report: U.S. to block Iran sanctions at G8 summit," by Shlomo Shamir for Haaretz, July 3 (thanks to JA): ...
US to block Iran sanctions at G8 summit!
Israel Matzav —
... I don't have enough time to really comment on this, but it's too astounding not to post. The United States plans to block the imposition of another round of tougher financial sanctions against Iran at next week's G8 summit. According to officials, sanctions against Iran are expected to top the G8's agenda. Sources are also predicting a pointed debate between the heads of the industrialized nations over an appropriate response to Iranian authorities' suppression of reformist demonstrations in Iran led by Mir Hossein Mousavi and other Iranian opposition leaders. Italian Prime ...
Obama blocking more sanctions on Iran?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Barack Obama said that he didn’t want to “meddle” in the Iranian crisis, but now it looks like he’s finally taking sides. Unfortunately, it’s the wrong side. Haaretz reports that Obama has attempted to block an expansion of sanctions on the Iranian mullahs among the G-8 nations (via ...
UNBEFEAKINLIEVABLE: OBAMA ALLYING WITH PUTIN TO OPPOSE ANY NEW SANCTIONS ON IRAN
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
YID WITH LID: President Obama's myopic pursuit of his engage the Islamist terrorist regime policy is making him reluctant to upset the Iranian government, with new sanctions. Its Neville Chamberlain time in the oval office: Report: U.S. to block Iran sanctions at G8 summit By Shlomo Shamir, The United States is opposed to enacting a new set of financial sanctions against Iran that are due to be discussed in the G8 summit next week, diplomatic officials in New York reported Friday. ...
Despot is as despot does
Cold Fury —
Friend To All Tyrants Barrack Hussein Obama is continuing to do his best to make sure Iran’s savage mullahs stay in power: According to officials, sanctions against Iran are expected to top the G8’s agenda. Sources are also predicting a pointed debate between the heads of the industrialized nations over an appropriate response to Iranian authorities’ suppression of reformist demonstrations in Iran led by Mir Hossein Mousavi and other Iranian opposition leaders. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hinted in a newspaper interview earlier in the week that the G8 is due to ...
Obama: sanctions might stand in the way of dialogue with the mullahs
neo-neocon —
... If true, this report is one more example—as though we needed another—that Obama’s foreign policy is misguided at best and willfully destructive at worst: ...
“SMART DIPLOMACY?” Report: U.S. to block Iran sanctions at G8 summit….
Instapundit —
“SMART DIPLOMACY?” Report: U.S. to block Iran sanctions at G8 summit.
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Sanctions sanctorum
Belmont Club —
... political problems would be unlawful and counter-productive,” Andrei Nesterenko told a regular press conference. Such a move would provoke unwelcome events in the country and the region, the spokesman said, adding that all disputes should be addressed through legal means. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said earlier that the upcoming meeting of the Group of Eight leaders in central Italy would discuss possible sanctions against Iran for its crackdown on election protests. The Haaretz report says: The United States is opposed to enacting a new set of financial sanctions ...
Obama to Kneel Before Shrine of Chamberlain?
Blogs For Victory —
Goodness, I hope this report isn’t true:
The United States is opposed to enacting a new set of financial sanctions against Iran that are due to be discussed in the G8 summit next week, diplomatic officials in New York reported Friday.
According to officials, sanctions against Iran are expected to top the G8’s agenda. Sources are also predicting a pointed debate between the heads of the industrialized nations over an appropriate response to Iranian authorities’ suppression of reformist demonstrations in Iran led by Mir Hossein ...
Anne Bayefsky: Bookmark this
Power Line —
... The President's game plan, therefore, is to work against serious sanctions on Iran, give Iran's leaders more time to develop nuclear weapons, and in the meantime put the squeeze on Israel as the preferred diversionary tactic for Muslim despots everywhere - shared evidently by the President of the United States. ...
Secession, Democratic Movements, And American Anti-Americanism
Discriminations —
... Sazegara. “This is the best way to save the lives of the Iranian people.”
Instead, Sazegara told Newsmax, he listened to Obama’s news conference on Tuesday with a sense of disbelief....
Sazegara, who was involved in the reform movement in the 1990s but eventually left Iran after the reformist government jailed him, said he listened to Obama with a sense of “deep, deep, deep regret. I never expected President Obama to say something like that.”
• From Report: U.S. to block Iran sanctions at G8 summit:
The United States is ...
Larwyn's Linx: Palin versus the Pundits
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... GWP MSM ignores public shunning bailed out GM, Chrysler : NewsBusters Limbaugh: Establishment 'Scared To Death Of Palin : Equalizer Powell can't help himself : NewsBusters Blue on Blue violence: HuffPo vs. WaPo : CNN Media's latest garbage: Cuba 7th happiest country on Earth : GWP MSM coverage of Tea Parties : Instapundit The lies exist to justify the hate : BruHon World Honduras: Blood in the Streets (Pics) : Abandoned Report: U.S. to block Iran sanctions at G8 summit : Haaretz King Obama Wants to Bypass ...
Duane R. Patterson: None Dare Call It Meddling
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
... . You should as well. President Obama was slow to respond to the Iranian crisis, citing that he didn't want to be seen as "meddling". Obama eventually publicly deplored the violence taking place, because after the violence escalated, he couldn't not speak out on it. Yet this week, when the rest of the G-8 leaders hinted they wanted to impose stiffer sanctions against the oppressive regime in Tehran, it was President Obama who worked to derail that idea . Meddling for the regime must not seem to count as actual meddling. In Iraq, as the much-promised withdrawal of American ...
