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| Iran Hails U.S.-Cuba Thaw as Proof Sanctions Don't Work | |
| 2014-12-22 | |
| [AnNahar] Iran has seized on Washington's historic rapprochement with Cuba after five decades of Cold War standoff as proof that big power sanctions do not work. "The defense by the Cuban government and people of their revolutionary ideals over the past 50 years shows that policies of isolation and sanctions imposed by the major powers against the wishes of independent nations are ineffective," foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Akfham said.
Washington and Havana said they would launch measures to ease a five-decade U.S. trade embargo as well as a prisoner exchange. First official talks are scheduled for January. Cuban President Compañero Raul Castro ...Fidel's little brother... on Saturday hailed the thaw with Washington and said he was ready to discuss any topic with the United States. Iran and the United States severed diplomatic ties after the November 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, along with 50 American hostages, which lasted 444 days. A year later Washington slapped a trade embargo on Iran and since 2006 the Islamic republic is also facing U.N. sanctions over its controversial nuclear program. Further international sanctions on Iran were announced in 2012, including U.S. and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... sanctions on oil exports and financial transactions. Iran denies it is seeking a bomb and says its nuclear program aims to produce atomic energy to reduce the country's reliance on fossil fuels. A historic 15-minute telephone call between U.S. President Barack Obama Because I won... and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani in September 2013 marked the first contact between leaders of the two nations since 1979. The call was a tentative step towards a thaw between the two countries, who have been engaged in tenuous nuclear talks along with other world powers. The talks between Iran and the P5 -- Britannia, China, La Belle France, Russia, the United States and Germany -- have been extended until June 30 after the two sides failed to meet a November 24 deadline. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Reuters] PUTIN WRITES OFF US$32.0BILYUHN OF CUBA'S DEBT TO RUSSIA - RUSSIA TODAY NEWS. * SAME > CUBA'S DEBT, OFTEN INERT, RIDES THE POLITICAL WINDS | REUTERS. Ahh, good ole Commie-Socialist Debt "Write-off" -Dare post-2015, Globalist OWG NAU Amerika do the same, wid its own Debts, National + NAU's, as well per Cuba's??? * FYI JAPAN TIMES > OPINION: NOW, WHY NOT RETURN GUANTANAMO TO HAVANA?, as proactive complement to the desired improvement of US-Cuba ties. Wehell, POTUS Carter gave the Panama Canal to China, so why not allow Cuba + other non-US Member-Nations of OWG NAU [Mexico, Canada, Greenland?] be responsible for US, NAU security = "Monroe Doctrine", NOT THE US OR NO LONGER JUST-THE-US??? Lest we fergit, OWG NAU = THE "AMERICAN DREAM" = "AMERIKAN DREAM" AKA "NORTH AMERICAN/NORTH AMERIKAN/NAU DREAM"??? Is the US still going to be "Whitey" selfish + Nationalist, + NOT give EAST ASIA + GUAM-WESTPAC to fellow OWG Co-Superpower China - after all, the furthest US State outside of CONUS-NORAM is Hawaii, + said Hawaii is located in EASTPAC, NOT WESTPAC??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-12-22 22:17 |
| #4 Not many potential national league baseball players there in Tehran are there? Not much in the way of good cigars or rum either. Seriously, unlike the pro-commie-Cuba political base, there is no pro-theocratic-Iran political faction for the administration to cater to (aside from ValJar...) Iran's also too far away and thus lacks a familiar, historical for-better-or-worse relationship with the US. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-12-22 12:50 |
| #3 Unexcpectedly. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-12-22 10:25 |
| #2 Not many potential national league baseball players there in Tehran are there? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-12-22 09:06 |
| #1 So if they don't work, you'll have no objection to us leaving them in place, right? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-12-22 07:31 |