Comments on: Ron Paul Says Iran Sanctions Will Backfire

By: Cabby

Cabby — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:27:56 +0000

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By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:48:16 +0000

The U.S. should wash its hands of Israel.

By: anti_republocrat

anti_republocrat — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:31:13 +0000

Much of the above relates to the "Additional Protocol" which Iran voluntarily implemented several years ago as a "confidence-building" measure in hopes the the US and EU would then negotiate in good faith. They also voluntarily suspended enrichment as part of these "confidence-building" measures. Unfortunately, the US and EU did not negotiate in good faith. Instead, they dragged out the negotiations with the expectation that they could delay forever and Iran would continue to comply with the supposedly temporary "confidence-building" measures.

Naturally, after years of this, Iran put a stop to it by resuming its enrichment and added their own "stick" of withdrawing from compliance with the Additional Protocols, which by the way are NOT required by the NPT or international law.

As far as the Board of Governors of the IAEA and the Security Council are concerned, they both overstepped their legal authority granted by the NPT.

By: joorip

joorip — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:05:32 +0000

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By: joorip

joorip — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:23:53 +0000

Why is that a reason to do what Iran wants? Besides Israel wouldn't care about Iran if Iran wasn't out to get them.Israel used to have good relations with Iran.

The US ought not give money to Israel but the US ought not give into Iran either.

Anyway why give into iran , cause they blow stuff up if they don't get their way?

By: doomed

doomed — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:06:16 +0000

Severe Iranian sanctions before any diplomacy is counter productive & put us on track to war with Iran. These sanctions are more inflammatory because they target Iran’s weakness in oil refining. With U.S. support Saddam Hussein destroyed much of Iran’s refinery capability during the Iraq Iran war when he tried to take over Iranian oil rich Khuzestan Province [2]. A failed “diplomacy” will just be used to sell another war to the misinformed American public like Iraq. Iraq was disarmed of WMD in the Clinton Administration (not Bush) & at least a100,000 Iraqi children died because of sanctions before the war not for WMD but for regime change [3]. What Obama said at the G-20 meeting about Iranian Qom refinery are both misleading & fear mongering. The Qom site was not secret, it was declared by the Iranians. It’s still under construction & won’t be operational for over a year. Scott Ritter the former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq calls it “politically motivated hype”. Before this incident Mohamed ElBaradei, the current Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said “I think the (Iranian) threat has been hyped," & “dismayed by the allegations of some member states … fed to the media … that information has been withheld from the board … politically motivated and totally baseless … undermine its independence”. Like Scott Ritter in Iraq, ElBaradei is undermined in Iran [4]. [2a] Khuzestan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh%C5%ABzest%C4%81n_... [2b]U. S. support for Iraq - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_suppor... [2c] Rumsfeld Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein -http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/ [2d] Lawsuit: U.S. firms sold poison gas ingredients to Iraq - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld... [3a] Iraq sanctions - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions [3b] Scott Ritter former U.N. weapons inspector & Marine Intelligence officer http://www.thenationmart.com/ircounstfori.html [4a] Obama at G-20 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Statem... [4b] IAEA Qom - http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Transcripts/2009/t... [4c] ElBaradei Iran hyped -http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE581... [4d] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJM_p2GYOiw

By: doomed

doomed — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:54:07 +0000

Please write congress against the Iranian Sanctions. These are S. 1065, Iran Sanctions Enabling Act of 2009; Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act H. R. 2194 & H. RES. 460 (house) & S. 908 (senate). The intent of H. RES. 460 is to expedite H. R. 2194 by pulling it out of committee. Last year a more severe version of these bills complete with a naval blockade was proposed (H.CON.RES 362 & S.RES.580). This shelved partly because of letter writing, but mostly because even congress knows not to start a new war in the middle of a financial crisis.

By: andy

andy — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:45:05 +0000

We do what Israel wants.

By: 1984

1984 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:10:26 +0000

You're right. But I expect at a much larger scale. Or maybe not. Maybe Obama is not as mad as the neocons.