| Submit your comments on this article |
| Down Under |
| Australia to follow EU lead on Iran sanctions |
| 2012-01-25 |
| LONDON: Australia will follow the European Union's lead in banning oil imports and imposing a range of other sanctions on Iran, Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said on Tuesday. Rudd said later that Australian imports of Iranian oil were already "negligible." "On the question of Iran, let me be absolutely clear (regarding) the actions taken in Brussels yesterday on sanctions by the European Union — we in Australia will undertake precisely the same parallel action for Australia," he told reporters during a visit to London. Rudd said a message needed to be sent to the Iranian government that its behavior was "globally unacceptable." He said Australian exports to Iran had "declined massively" because of previous rounds of sanctions. "So this is not a piece of idle philanthropy on the part of Australian foreign policy. This costs, but it is a cost worth paying," he told a news conference after talks between the British and Australian defence and foreign ministers. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 See also WORLD NEWS > OBAMA VOWS TO STOP IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM BY ALL MEANS. Any Each + All Means necessary. Lest we fergit, its for the future OWG ISLAMIC = ISLAMIST-JIHADIST [etc.] CALIPHATE - RADICAL ISLAM DESIRES NUKES AS A MEANS OF ATTAINING MINIMAL PARITY, IFF NOT PER SE SUPERIORITY OR DOMINANCE, WID THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD. Short of a major US or UNSC-led GROUND WAR/CAMPAIGN, Iran is unlikely to stop dev its NucProg as long as its only US-Allied Warships roaming up-n-down the international waterway known as the Persian Gulf, i.e. "THE US,ETAL IS OVER THERE [offshore], NOT OVER HERE [land]". Lastly, LEST WE FERGIT II > IRAN + OTHER MUSLIM GOVTS + MILTERRS GENER VIEW THE BAMMER AS A WEAK LEADER, HENCE PROB HAVE A VESTED INTEREST IN ENSURING THAT HE WINS RE-ELECTION AS POTUS THRU 2016, by which time most Perts Iran will have a number of working NucBombs/Warheads + reliable LR Missle Delivery Sys. Read, anti-US Islamist $$$ for any + all "Re-elect Obama" 2012 Campaign coffers??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-01-25 21:56 |