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US Senate votes 94-0 to expand sanctions on Iran energy, shipping
2012-12-01
[Ynet] The US Senate resoundingly approved new sanctions on trade with Iran's energy, port, shipping and ship-building sectors on Friday, its latest effort to ratchet up economic pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.

Senators voted 94-0 to make the new sanctions part of an annual defense policy bill. The defense bill must still be approved by the Senate and House of Representatives before it would be given to President Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
to sign into law.
According to the Foreign Policy Magazine blog, the White House is opposed:
The White House announced its opposition to a new round of Iran sanctions that the Senate unanimously approved Friday, in the latest instance of Congress pushing for more aggressive punitive measures on Iran than the administration deems prudent.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  that's an insult to all dildos the world over, bj-CA
Posted by: USN,Ret.   2012-12-01 18:18  

#4  That's so all those dildo-heads can point the finger at each other when Iran lights off a nuke in their first test.
Posted by: bigjim-CA   2012-12-01 12:15  

#3  It's like Bloomberg's banning the Big Gulp. A lot show with no effect. Theater. Posturing. Look we're doing something.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-12-01 09:35  

#2  And who were the six who did not vote?
Posted by: Voldemort Grereth1352   2012-12-01 09:15  

#1  US SENATE-CRITTERS ...

versus

* IIRC DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > POTUS OBAMA GIVES PAKISTAN [indirect]PERMISSION TO ATTACK THE USA, vee the Bammer's claim that any each + all sovereign nations in the world have the right to protect or defend themselves.

Lest we fergit, thats NUKE-ARMED PAKISTAN.

Pragmatically, despite the Bammer's new pro-UNIAEA March 2013 deadline for Iran I still anticipate the latter to stay on the strategic defensive, i.e. IN IRAN'S VIEW IT IS NOT FOR IT TO STOP ITS OWN NUCPROGS BUT FOR THE US TO DE FACTO STRIKE + INVADE IRAN ALA MAJOR GROUND WAR.

IMO more bad or troubling news for the US Navy-DOD, USFK + USFJ, + USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CVN/CVBG over by the Koreas + Japan.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-12-01 00:21  

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