Now you will stay in the Comfy Chair until lunchtime, with only a cup of coffee at eleven!
Posted on 10/25/2007 3:33:18 AM PDT by maquiladora
The Bush administration plans to roll out an unprecedented package of unilateral sanctions against Iran today, including the long-awaited designations of its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and of the elite Quds Force as a supporter of terrorism, according to senior administration officials.
The package, scheduled to be announced jointly by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., marks the first time that the United States has tried to isolate or punish another country's military. It is the broadest set of punitive measures imposed on Tehran since the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy, the officials said.
The new sanctions will empower the United States to financially isolate a large part of Iran's military and anyone inside or outside Iran who does business with it, U.S. officials said. The measures could affect hundreds of foreign companies by squeezing them to drop Iranian business or risk U.S. sanctions.
The administration will designate the entire Revolutionary Guard under Executive Order 13382, signed by President Bush in June 2005, which allows the United States to freeze the assets of any proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and its supporters. Iran is being designated for its ballistic missile program. The United States will announce a list of Iranians involved in that program -- civilians as well as military officials -- who will also be designated, U.S. officials said.
Under the same executive order, the administration also intends to designate Iran's Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, which controls Iran's defense industries, as well as companies owned or controlled by the Revolutionary Guard, U.S. officials said.
The overall impact, according to U.S. officials, will be to make a pariah of the most critical parts of Iran's military and its defense and commercial industries.
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maybe we needed the Wall money to ramp up the UAV’s for the eventual attack on Tehran. Just thinkin’ here...
This is an appropriate and coordinated move that sets the stage for subsequent actions.
Wonder when we are going to REALLY target Iran’s military.
Should have been done as early as 1976, but we know the peanut farmer is way behind the power curve, Reagan was battling a liberally run congress, which is still out of control; and the list goes on.
“”The measures could affect hundreds of foreign companies by squeezing them to drop Iranian business or risk U.S. sanctions.””
That is the only reason we did this. Makes Europe think about who they will do business with.
This is good. Unilateral sanctions bypassing the UN. Crank out some more Exec Orders while you are at it.
Great, giving them the old “stop or I’ll say stop again” a la North Korea will sure show them.
This is long overdue. OK, we’ve got sanctions, we’ve declared them a terrorists organization (what took us so long?), let’s break out the MOABs.
This is just neccessary and part of the leadup to military action. Call it foreplay to military action.
But the sanctions will do only one thing, make Americans aware.
We have an Islamofascist Axis with which to content, which includes Russia, as of todays announcement of a Russia/Iran alliance in arms.
All the goobers who do business with Iran now will simply resort to the Black Market, with the covert support of the UN and liberals at home ( like the Plame /Wilsons).
We will have to fight them eventually. And sooner is better than later.
So if China or Russia sells new fighter jets to Iran...
...ulp...
...oh my....
;-)
In the end, China and Russia may wish they supported more toothless UN sanctions if the US follows through with punishing countries/companies that do business with Iran.
The hard part is getting it up to eighty-eight miles per hour.
Both are losing bets. We won’t do either.
“Both are losing bets. We won’t do either.”
Yep, and ain’t it a shame?
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