Posted on 04/29/2010 8:40:25 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
Wants exemption for firms based in China and Russia.
The Obama administration is pressing Congress to provide an exemption from Iran sanctions to companies based in "cooperating countries," a move that likely would exempt Chinese and Russian concerns from penalties meant to discourage investment in Iran.
The Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act is in a House-Senate conference committee and is expected to reach President Obama's desk by Memorial Day.
"It's incredible the administration is asking for exemptions, under the table and winking and nodding, before the legislation is signed into law," Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Republican and a conference committee member, said in an interview. A White House official confirmed Wednesday that the administration was pushing the conference committee to adopt the exemption of "cooperating countries" in the legislation.
Neither the House nor Senate version of the bill includes a "cooperating countries" provision even though the administration asked the leading sponsors of the Senate version of the bill nearly six months ago to include one.
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North Korea will be next.
they are actually making Jimmy Carter look resolute by comparison
Wow.
I hear what you say about being unbelievable, but...the fact that they are brazen enough to say “We want sanctions on Iran, except for those countries that are doing a boatload of business with Iran.”
Basically, Uganda and Rhodesia are going to be hit hard because they sell woven baskets, but we wouldn’t want to interfere with any advanced scientific equipment that someone wants to send them.
Hello? Anyone? Hello?
Unoffically, the leader of the free world is Benjamin Netanyahu.
My God.
What you wrote is actually true. I cannot believe that, but it is.
My God.
BTT
Can you say “Siemens” ?
Shhhhhhh....Obammy and his henchmen read this stuff. No ideas!
I don’t know what I am upset about. China and Russia may sign something saying they are going to participate in sanctions, but they have no intention of doing so.
I guess what sticks out at me is that OUR country is openly siding with them.
Just wow.
WTF?
When will the rest of our idiot countrymen wake up.
Let me get this right:
0 wants sanctions on Iran, but he wants to grant an exemption to countries who are supposedly agreeing to sanctions on Iran (China, Russia), by writing into the sanctions that those countries don’t have to actually impose sanctions on Iran.
So that, in essence, we can say that we have sanctions on Iran without there actually being any sanctions on Iran.
That’s bloody brilliant. You can’t make this stuff up.
Obama is a globalist elite puppet, and too many people are distracted by TV and other social extravagants to ever respond.
“If the administration can use this ‘cooperating-countries’ waiver to get cooperation from a country like China on enforcing the U.N. sanctions and on suspending investment in Iran’s oil and gas industry, then this bill will be a great success for U.S. objectives about Iran’s nuclear program and support for terrorism,” he said.
zer0 knows very well how toothless the UN is. They’ve always been powerless or unwilling to enforce their own sanctions or resolutions. They’re nothing more than theatre and Russia more than anyone else is aware of this and uses their seat on the Security Council to great effect.
We saw that as well concerning Iraq as we tried for 6 months to get them to enforce their own resolution before we went in on our own.
“U.S. unilateral sanctions aimed at freezing foreign companies out of American markets have been irritants in U.S. diplomacy. Foreign countries complain that imposing such “secondary sanctions” is just a form of protectionism.”
That’s the only way to get sanctions to work. The US markets are much larger and important to these foreign multinationals than the Iranian market. If we’re not willing to bar these companies that do business with Iran from doing business with the US it’s obvious these sanctions are nothing more than window dressing, designed to fail.
THe damage this amateur in the WH is doing internationally may well be irrepairable. We’re in the process of losing Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Putin has to be licking his chops.
Obama, China, and Russia are BFF’s. This makes perfect sense if seen in that light.
Who is that brain-dead old FOOL-?!
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