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US official financial sanctions ‘painful’ for Iran
2008-03-07
WASHINGTON - Targeted financial sanctions have been effective in isolating Iran, causing a ‘painful’ situation for Teheran’s leaders and raising questions about the Iranian administration, a US Treasury official said on Thursday.
Have an 'accident' at an Iranian oil refinery and now you have something ...
‘Iran has found itself increasingly isolated from the international financial system as banks around the world decide that maintaining their Iranian clientele is not worth the risk of unwittingly facilitating (weapons) proliferation or terrorism,’ Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey said in remarks prepared for delivery to an American Bar Association conference in Miami.

‘That self-imposed isolation combined with the Iranian regime’s mismanagement of their country’s economy is beginning to generate a debate about the wisdom of the current regime’s policies,’ he added.
Posted by:Steve White

#2  Apparently not painful enough...I mean, look at Gaza if you wanna see how much pain people can endure in the name of Islam.

Apples and oranges. Persians aren't Paleostinians.

Sanctions are a limp wristed approach that will never work against dangerous and determined enemies like the Mad Mullahs.

True, if it were the only 'weapon' used and only targeted against the mullahs. Do some research and see who controls the economy.

It will only make them contemptuous of us and strengthen them in their conviction that we will never do what is really necessary which is to bomb the hell out of them.

I bow before your obvious and superior military prowness.
Posted by: Pappy   2008-03-07 17:08  

#1  Apparently not painful enough...I mean, look at Gaza if you wanna see how much pain people can endure in the name of Islam. Sanctions are a limp wristed approach that will never work against dangerous and determined enemies like the Mad Mullahs. It will only make them contemptuous of us and strengthen them in their conviction that we will never do what is really necessary which is to bomb the hell out of them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque (aka Ebbang Uluque6305)   2008-03-07 12:12  

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