New sanctions levied against Iran - Yahoo! News: "The Bush administration announced sweeping new sanctions against Iran Thursday — the harshest since the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in 1979 — charging anew that Tehran supports terrorism in the Middle East, exports missiles and is engaging in a nuclear build up.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, said the moves against Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, an element of its defense ministry and three of its largest banks are designed to punish Tehran for weapons proliferation and alleged support of terrorist organizations in Iraq and the Middle East.
'Unfortunately the Iranian government continues to spurn our offer of open negotiations, instead threatening peace and security,' through its disputed nuclear program, production and export of ballistic missiles and backing for Shia insurgents in Iraq, the Taliban in Afghanistan, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas movement in Gaza, Rice said."
There is no doubt in my mind that these new sanctions are designed to push Iran to retaliate against the U.S., and when they do, it will be the justification that the administration needs to start dropping bombs on the country. In anther story that came out yesterday, the Administration requested emergency funding to modify its current line of B-2 bombers so that they can carry a new, heavier version of the bunker-buster bomb that was used in the Iraq bombing. Those bombs would be quite useful for destroying heavily-protected nuclear weapon sites, if Iran actually has any, that is. Who knows what to believe when the propaganda machine starts churning?
Thursday, October 25, 2007
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