Bin the soft words. Squeeze Iran sharply

Timesonline ^ | July 8, 2009 | Rosemary Righter

[don-o]

Talk about talks with Ahmadinejad is worthless. We need sanctions and firm diplomacy

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In the expanded G8+ sessions there is no way to buck convention but in the session on foreign policy with which they kick off today, eight powerful politicians should break with tradition and do some real thinking. Binning their prepared remarks, they should concentrate, with what Barack Obama loves to call “the fierce urgency of now”, on a single question.

That question is how to exert pressure on Iran’s Islamic dictatorship, now that the political landscape has been transformed by the Khamenei-Ahmadinejad electoral coup and above all by the Iranians’ refusal to take it lying down.

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The Big Lie about the elections haunts every corner of Iranian life, colouring everything the regime now does. Pussyfooting by the West has never been more inexcusable, or truth-telling more likely to find a receptive Iranian audience.

[don-o]

Long. Worth a read

[kromike]

Well, gee, getting tough with Iran might work if we had an actual man and not some glorified girly-punk in the White Hut.

[Texas Fossil]

What would happen to Iran if the people of Iraq decided to help them gain their freedom from the Nutcases.

Are they not both Shite’s?

The ones in Iraq might learn the power of an open society learned under the Shaw and before Islam in Persia, and the Iranians might get their freedom from the Nutcases.

Of coarse Obozo does not want that, but it could happen.

Would that be good or bad. That depends on a lot of factors that we cannot control, and fortunately that Obozo cannot control.

[rahbert]

only sanctions delivered by Air Combat Command seem to have any effect on Iran.

[lmr]

ping.