WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said yesterday it has imposed sanctions on companies in North Korea, China, and Iran for violating US law aimed at stopping the spread of missiles and other weapons technology.
The penalties were the first of their kind from the new administration and signaled a willingness to continue the Bush administration's tough stance on weapons proliferation.
There is your "change," folks. Related: Obama's Crank Call to China
Of course, ignore Sibel Edmonds, the Israeli spy ring, and how Israel got the nuclear bomb.
The sanctions, while largely symbolic, come at a sensitive time in two key US diplomatic efforts. The United States relies on Chinese leverage in international negotiations to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programs. The Obama administration also needs the help of China to deter Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon.
Yeah, good thing Iran is NOT building a nuclear bomb and that the AmeriKan MSM admits it!!!!
The measures were in the works for some time, but Obama officials signed off on them after the he took office and announced them in yesterday's Federal Register. They bar the companies from trade with the United States that they were not likely involved in....
Another nothing change.
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And if they are doing this, then I don't want to hear anymore war talk -- unless all we are going to do is fight them with tennis rackets and not bombs and missiles!
"US sending badminton team to Iran
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is sending a women's badminton team to Iran this week as part of a broad bid to engage the Iranian people through educational and cultural exchanges, the State Department said yesterday.
You know, here are some ways you can engage the Iranian people: For openers, you can acknowledge and apologize for the 1953 coup against democracy that brought the brutal Shah to power -- the Persian equal of Saddam Hussein -- which laid the basis for their Islamic Revolution; apologize for the terrorist act of shooting down a civilian airliner; cease supporting terrorist groups such as M.E.K., P.J.A.K., and Jundallah and rescind Bush's authorization for covert action against Iran!!!
Then you can tell your insulting Secretary of State to wash her mouth out.
But then again, someone already asked you to apologize and you said no.
Amid a wide-ranging review of US policy toward the Islamic Republic, the trip is the new administration's first foray into such exchanges that began under George W. Bush. Past exchanges have involved athletes from other sports, artists, academics and professionals.
Then what's up with the double-speak? Why the war-mongering falsities and lies? To SET UP PATSIES? Have their PASSPORTS and IDENTITIES STOLEN so they can be SET UP for the next FALSE-FLAG OPERATION?
The 12-member team - eight female players and four coaches and managers representing USA Badminton - will be in Tehran from today until Feb. 9 to participate in the Iran Fajr International Badminton Tournament, which begins on Friday, the State Department said in a statement.
It said the US squad was invited by the Iranian Badminton Federation and that they hoped to extend an invitation to Iran's national team to come to the United States in July.
A NUCLEAR 9/11 this time?
This week's trip is being sponsored by the State Department, which since 2006 has promoted people-to-people exchanges with Iran.
Then WHY the WAR RHETORIC, huh?
More than 250 Iranians, including artists, athletes, and medical professionals, have participated in exchange programs in the United States, the department said.
There are your patsies.
Previous sports exchanges, which started in Jan. 2007, have included wrestlers and weightlifters as well as basketball, table tennis and water polo players. Since then, the department says it has sent 32 US athletes to Iran and brought 75 Iranian athletes and coaches to the United States.
--more--"It all makes you wonder why we are such dicks to them -- although, I never wonder anymore; unfortunately, the sound of the Zionist piper from Washington D.C. can be heard all the way out here as the craven Congress dances to their tune alone.
