The US secretary of state said on 6 June 2010 that world powers have the required number of votes to pass the sanctions resolution against Iran for what the US characterizes as continuing to enrich uranium in defiance of repeated Security Council ultimatums.
Clinton said she expected Iran would "pull some stunt in the next couple of days" to try to divert the resolution vote.
Iran's President Ahmadinejad will visit China later this week to discuss the threat of new UN sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.
Ahmadinejad will be attending Expo Shanghai 2010, but will also meet top Chinese officials to discuss Iran's nuclear program, the threat of sanctions and a fuel swap deal for a Tehran research reactor brokered by Brazil and Turkey last month, Iranian
state television reported on Monday.
China, which has emerged in recent years as Iran's main trading partner, continues to insist on diplomacy to resolve the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program but US officials say they have Beijing's support for the sanctions resolution.
Before heading to China, Iran's President Ahmadinejad was due to hold a round of meetings in Istanbul where he was attending a regional security and confidence building conference on June 6.
He was expected to meet Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia, another Security Council permanent member, media reports said.
He was also due to meet Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the nuclear fuel swap deal.
On May 17, Turkey and Brazil brokered a deal with under which Iran agreed to ship 1,200 kilograms (2,640 pounds) of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Turkey in return for high-enriched uranium fuel for the Tehran reactor which would be supplied later by Russia and France.
The deal was scorned immediately by the US which has ratcheted up diplomatic pressure for a fourth set of UN sanctions.
US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said world powers have the necessary votes at the Security Council.
Sooner or later, it's time for Hilary Clinton to put up or shut up.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Another US Congressional Idiot
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should be arrested and tried with war crimes while he's in the United States, Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) said Monday.
Ahmadinejad is in New York for the United Nations nuclear summit, and Israel wants to use the opportunity to have the Iranian president taken into custody.
"Ahmadinejad shouldn't just be protested in NYC, he should be arrested and tried for incitement to commit genocide," Israel said on his Twitter feed.
Check the name of the Congressman foaming at the mouth. It's obvious who is paying him to rant like a maniac.
US has explicitly threatened to nuke Iran. (President Barack Obama, on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, threatened to launch a nuclear attack against Iran and North Korea if these countries refuse to toe Washington's line.) It is the US that is the rogue state, the war-monger, the war-criminal regime.
Ahmadinejad is in New York for the United Nations nuclear summit, and Israel wants to use the opportunity to have the Iranian president taken into custody.
"Ahmadinejad shouldn't just be protested in NYC, he should be arrested and tried for incitement to commit genocide," Israel said on his Twitter feed.
Check the name of the Congressman foaming at the mouth. It's obvious who is paying him to rant like a maniac.
US has explicitly threatened to nuke Iran. (President Barack Obama, on Tuesday, April 6, 2010, threatened to launch a nuclear attack against Iran and North Korea if these countries refuse to toe Washington's line.) It is the US that is the rogue state, the war-monger, the war-criminal regime.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Hillary: Prove It or STFU
Hillary Clinton puts on a show, yipping and yapping, but offering no substantiating evidence for accusation about her Iran fantasy.
Hillary's Wild Accusation
Iran is a member of the NNPT. All of Iran's nuclear work is inspected by the IAEA.
To date, IAEA inspections have found no diversion of any nuclear materials and Iranian nuclear materials have not been enriched beyond the level necessary to fuel a nuclear power plant.
Iran has no nuclear weapons.
Israel is believed to be the sole nuclear power in the Middle East with more than 200 nuclear heads and is not even a signatory for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).
US disclosed for the first time on 3 May 2010 the overall size of its nuclear arsenal, saying it had a total of 5,113 warheads operationally deployed, kept in active reserve and held in inactive storage. US nuclear arsenal has been reduced by 84% from its maximum level of 31,225 warheads at the end of fiscal year 1967.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on 3 May 2010, however, said that Iran's nuclear program puts the world at risk.
Hillary Clinton: stupid or malevolently mendacious.
Hillary's Wild Accusation
Iran is a member of the NNPT. All of Iran's nuclear work is inspected by the IAEA.
To date, IAEA inspections have found no diversion of any nuclear materials and Iranian nuclear materials have not been enriched beyond the level necessary to fuel a nuclear power plant.
Iran has no nuclear weapons.
Israel is believed to be the sole nuclear power in the Middle East with more than 200 nuclear heads and is not even a signatory for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).
US disclosed for the first time on 3 May 2010 the overall size of its nuclear arsenal, saying it had a total of 5,113 warheads operationally deployed, kept in active reserve and held in inactive storage. US nuclear arsenal has been reduced by 84% from its maximum level of 31,225 warheads at the end of fiscal year 1967.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on 3 May 2010, however, said that Iran's nuclear program puts the world at risk.
Hillary Clinton: stupid or malevolently mendacious.
Friday, April 30, 2010
US Ambassador Moron
The political problems between Cuba and the United States will be resolved in 50 years when the island disappears under water because of climate change, said Carlos Pascual, the U.S. ambassador in Mexico City.
Mr. Pascual, born in Havana in 1959, was introduced as an “expert in climate change and renewable energy” at a Forum called Green Business Expo held at a private university in Mexico City. In his talk he referred to the effect of global warming and rising sea levels in areas such as Florida and Cuba, according to CNN [Spanish language].
If that's the case, Florida and much of the US east coast will also be submerged. Cuba, even after another fifty years wasted by the US, would be the least of problems for the US.
US State Department should demand bigger bribes from the dummies made ambassadors.
Mr. Pascual, born in Havana in 1959, was introduced as an “expert in climate change and renewable energy” at a Forum called Green Business Expo held at a private university in Mexico City. In his talk he referred to the effect of global warming and rising sea levels in areas such as Florida and Cuba, according to CNN [Spanish language].
If that's the case, Florida and much of the US east coast will also be submerged. Cuba, even after another fifty years wasted by the US, would be the least of problems for the US.
US State Department should demand bigger bribes from the dummies made ambassadors.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
US Sanctions Regime Wavers (sic)
The White House has reportedly called on Congress to provide waivers in the Iran sanction bill that would allow Chinese and Russian companies to do business with Iran.
The Obama administration is pressing Congress to provide an exemption from sanctions against Iran for certain companies of "cooperating countries," Fox News reported on April 29.
Congressmen believe the decision is aimed at relieving concerns about possible penalties for Chinese and Russian companies and garnering Moscow and Beijing's support for a fourth round of sanctions against Iran in the UN Security Council.
On this same day . . .
Italy's Eni says it will not extend its contracts to develop an Iranian oil field as it may lead to US sanctions against the oil firm.
State-controlled Eni, Italy's biggest oil and gas company, signed contracts in 2001 with the Iranian government to develop Darkhovin oil field.
In an annual report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Eni said it would not extend its contracts for the third phase of the project because of the government pressures and fear of US sanctions against the company, Reuters reported.
"Our activities in Iran could lead to sanctions under relevant US legislation," the report said.
"Specifically, activities are progressing to hand over operatorship of the Darkhovin oilfield to the local partners as development activities were concluded at this field in 2009."
Eni's Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni also said on Thursday that the company intends to sell off its shares in the oil field.
Italy has been one of Iran's major European partners and Eni has been doing business with Iran since 1957. However, Italy's close ties with Israel and the US, which is pushing for a fourth round of sanctions against Iran in the UN Security Council, have reduced Rome's commercial dealings with the Islamic Republic.
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini had earlier said that Rome has suspended export credit guarantees for firms investing in Iran, adding that Italy intends to block new investments in Iranian oil and gas industry.
Under the US Iran Sanction Act, sanctions might be imposed on any person or company that invests more than $20 million a year in Iran's energy sector.
So this is how the deal appears to be shaking out: the closer US ally, Italy, must take an economic hit while the nominal "bad guys," China and Russia get exemptions from the sanctions that the US is trying to rig against Iran.
The Obama administration is pressing Congress to provide an exemption from sanctions against Iran for certain companies of "cooperating countries," Fox News reported on April 29.
Congressmen believe the decision is aimed at relieving concerns about possible penalties for Chinese and Russian companies and garnering Moscow and Beijing's support for a fourth round of sanctions against Iran in the UN Security Council.
On this same day . . .
Italy's Eni says it will not extend its contracts to develop an Iranian oil field as it may lead to US sanctions against the oil firm.
State-controlled Eni, Italy's biggest oil and gas company, signed contracts in 2001 with the Iranian government to develop Darkhovin oil field.
In an annual report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Eni said it would not extend its contracts for the third phase of the project because of the government pressures and fear of US sanctions against the company, Reuters reported.
"Our activities in Iran could lead to sanctions under relevant US legislation," the report said.
"Specifically, activities are progressing to hand over operatorship of the Darkhovin oilfield to the local partners as development activities were concluded at this field in 2009."
Eni's Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni also said on Thursday that the company intends to sell off its shares in the oil field.
Italy has been one of Iran's major European partners and Eni has been doing business with Iran since 1957. However, Italy's close ties with Israel and the US, which is pushing for a fourth round of sanctions against Iran in the UN Security Council, have reduced Rome's commercial dealings with the Islamic Republic.
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini had earlier said that Rome has suspended export credit guarantees for firms investing in Iran, adding that Italy intends to block new investments in Iranian oil and gas industry.
Under the US Iran Sanction Act, sanctions might be imposed on any person or company that invests more than $20 million a year in Iran's energy sector.
So this is how the deal appears to be shaking out: the closer US ally, Italy, must take an economic hit while the nominal "bad guys," China and Russia get exemptions from the sanctions that the US is trying to rig against Iran.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Canada's Debt Clock
Harper government would love to burden Canada with a huge national debt as an excuse to cut social programs.
Canada's national debt
Canada's national debt
Friday, April 16, 2010
Fascist Conventions Schedule
Trilateral Commission
Dublin, Ireland, May 7-9
International Economic Forum of the Americas
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 7-10
G8
Huntsville, Ontario, Canada, June 26-27
Dublin, Ireland, May 7-9
International Economic Forum of the Americas
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 7-10
G8
Huntsville, Ontario, Canada, June 26-27
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