Posted on 06/22/2009 1:42:25 PM PDT by kristinn
The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite the crackdown on opposition supporters.
President Barack Obama's administration said earlier this month it would invite Iran to US embassy barbecues for the national holiday for the first time since the two nations severed relations following the 1979 Islamic revolution.
"There's no thought to rescinding the invitations to Iranian diplomats," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.
"We have made a strategic decision to engage on a number of fronts with Iran," Kelly said. "We tried many years of isolation, and we're pursuing a different path now."
But he said it was not clear if Iranian diplomats had accepted the invitations.
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OMG, they can’t be serious!!!!!
That alone warrants a Tea Party within itself!
Oh for Heaven’s sake!!!!!!!!
(we are so screwed)
Obama is really something else. Their govt kills our soldiers in Iraq and he wants to share a steak with them.
ping
Pork byproduct weiners for everyone!
Wait until THIS hits the tweetosphere.
0 is a disgrace to everything this country stands for.
I wonder if they’ll serve ice cream.
Kelly said. “We tried many years of isolation, and we’re pursuing a different path now.”
This sounds like the UK govt...please like us....pleaseeeeeeeeee like us. Absolutely pathetic.
Probably all halal.
CraZyness envelopes the nation... well, it's current gubamint leaders anyway.
The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for
Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite
the crackdown on opposition supporters. (AFP/File/Stan Honda)
Gak! If that’s the sort of food they’re serving, then this probably counts as a Second Front.
Anyone doubt Obama is more Muslim than American??
Then, I'd serve pork hot dogs and pigs-in-blankets (corn dogs). And, maybe pork rinds for the chips.
This is un-frigging-real. I’d say “the children are back in charge in Washington” but kids are generally savvy enough to figure things like this out.
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...dang, now I’m hungry. For some highly non-halal pork sausage.
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Watch the tea parties grow and spread, we have not only a tax and spender, but an appeaser as well!
Maybe they will insist on Kosher hot dogs?
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