Posted on 04/22/2009 10:52:00 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday the Obama administration is prepared for tough sanctions against Iran if dialogue fails and voiced fears over Taliban advances in Pakistan.
In her first testimony to Congress since her confirmation as the US chief diplomat in January, Clinton also defended President Barack Obama's overtures to communist Cuba, which has been under a broad US economic embargo for decades.
Clinton sought to reassure Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who backed a new dialogue with Iran but asked if Washington could garner enough support to impose "crippling sanctions" if it failed.
She said the administration has "more leverage with other nations" through its negotiations with the other four UN Security Council members -- Russia, China, France and Britain -- plus Germany.
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"We are more than willing to reach out to the Iranians to discuss a range of issues, assuming they're willing to reach back," Clinton said.
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The UN Security Council has already imposed three rounds of sanctions on Iran, though they are not as strong as Washington wants amid resistance from Moscow and Beijing.
Iran said on Wednesday it is ready for "constructive dialogue" with world powers on its nuclear drive, after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomed the US policy shift towards Tehran.
But chief nuclear negotiator Said Jalili said Iran would not halt its nuclear program, which Western nations fear could be a cover for efforts to build an atomic bomb, despite Tehran's insistence that it is aimed only at generating electricity.
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She’s a ditz.
Klinton’s approach reminds me of a kid on a playground who says to a bully “I’m going to tell”.
Iran will get nukes and Hitlery will say they bought the centrifuges during the Bush administration.
Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon have no state sales tax. is shaking in his boots. Not!
He’s laughing at her and the Prez!
Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon have no state sales tax. is shaking in his boots. Not!
He’s laughing at her and the Prez!
Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon have no state sales tax. is shaking in his boots. Not!
He’s laughing at her and the Prez!
Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon have no state sales tax. is shaking in his boots. Not!
He’s laughing at her and the Prez!
She's wearing a dress to the next 'dialogue' meeting.
Please! This woman can’t even keep her own husband in check.
LOL. I thought that these clowns told us that ‘sanctions are not productive’ and that we should remove them from Cuba.
It’s awesome watching their ‘nuance’ in action. Smarter foreign policy eh?
CORRECTION!
Ahmadinejad is shaking in his boots. Not!
He’s laughing at her and the Prez!
Sorry, don’t know how two comment on different posts got combined. Ignore 6, 7 and 8.
Deja Vu..
The same clowns that set the stage for what the
Bush administration ended up neck deep in, The War on Foreign
Belligerents, are back , bigger and bolder than ever... all two faces of them.
Like what, cut off pork exports? No more invitations to U.N. "racism" conferences? Certainly not the biggie, no more cable satellite broadcasts???
Bullshit!
The "tough sanctions" will no doubt be a sternly worded letter!....krap, we can't even call terrorists terrorists any more!
...stupid cowards are going to get a bunch of us killed.
When the first Iranian nuke falls on America, I hope it is in Washington DC......
Guess it's time for that oft-promised invasion?
Whew! I thought you were losing it.
But she still is a ditz.
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