US, EU states fail to isolate Iran
Press TV – August 9, 2010
As the US and its European allies are trying to increase unilateral sanctions against Iran, other major states show bold resistance to the punitive measures.
“China, Russia, India and Turkey move into the lucrative void left by US and EU sanctions that aim to halt Iran’s nuclear program,” the Los Angeles Times wrote on Sunday.
On June 9, the UN Security Council imposed a fourth round of sanctions against Iran’s military and financial sectors over allegations that Tehran is following a military nuclear program.
In recent weeks, the US, the European Union, Australia, and Canada have added unilateral measures to the UNSC sanctions, targeting the energy rich country’s oil and gas industry. But China, Russia, India and Turkey rejected the unilateral US and EU sanctions aimed at Iran’s energy sector.
The countries “are making it very clear they are not going to go along with the new American and European efforts to ratchet up pressure on Iran,” Ben Rhode, an analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, told the Times. China’s move to expand its business Iran “has been amazing,” said a senior European official on condition of anonymity, the American newspaper said.
Iran’s Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Noqrehkar Shirazi announced last week that China is investing 40 billion dollars in Iran’s oil and gas industry.
The unilateral sanctions also gave China and Russia an opportunity to sell more gasoline to Iran.
“These countries have long-term interests in the region,” Bloomberg quoted Gary Sick, a member of the US National Security Council under Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan, as saying on Monday. China wants “to maintain relations with Iran for the sake of maintaining some access to the oil,” Sick said.
“Looking at the political situation, I’m not sure if Europe and the US were 100 percent sure about the possible responses from places like Russia and China,” said Alexander Poegl, an analyst at JBC Energy in Vienna. “Iran will find partners supplying them gasoline,” he added.
Last week China defended its economic ties with Iran after a senior US official called on Beijing to adopt the UN sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program.
“China’s trade with Iran is a normal business exchange, which will not harm the interests of other countries and the international community,” China Daily quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu as saying on Thursday.
“Sanctions will not hinder us in our joint cooperation,” Sergei Shmatko, Russia’s energy minister, said last month in Moscow after signing an agreement for a long-term energy partnership with his Iranian counterpart.
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The US together with some silly puppet regimes in Europe are
only hurting themselves with more sanctions against Iran.
Zionism is behind all this and needs to be eradicated before they are going with this madness too far.
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1. No proof has been provided, by either the US nor the EU, that Iran is building a nuclear bomb!
Not by the US-administration to the US Congress or Senate, not by the EU-Commission to the EU-parliament!
2. The only country that says to possess proof is the state of Israel, a non-party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but maintainer of nuclear weapons itself without inspection by the IAEA!
Official requests for proof of the accusations of the existence of a nuclear weapon by Iran to the state of Israel or the development of such a weapon by Iran (by either the IAEA, the US-Congress or the EU-Parliament) have not resulted in providing such proof!
3. Every state has the right to develop and maintain nuclear energy for its citizens, including but not limited to Iran!
4. The state of Israel refuses to acknowledge the possession of nuclear weapons, though proof is presented to the world by and through disclosure of documents that showed the offering by the state of Israel of nuclear material and or weapons to the then apartheids-regime of South Africa.
By refusing to subject itself to official inspections by the IAEA the state of Israel has lost its right to accuse anyone of possessing nuclear weapons!
5. By subjecting the people of Iran to inhuman blockades and or sanctions, the US and the EU are guilty of Crimes against Humanity, and should be put to trail for that!
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