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Obama Vows 'Ton of Bricks' Pain for Iran Sanctions Violators
2014-02-12
[An Nahar] President Barack Obama
Because I won...
said Tuesday that foreign firms testing commercial prospects in Iran did so at their own peril and vowed to come down like a "ton of bricks" on sanctions violators.

Obama spoke alongside French President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
a week after a large French business delegation traveled to Tehran to test opportunities that could be opened by the easing of Western sanctions.

"Businesses may be exploring -- are there some possibilities to get in sooner rather than later if and when there is an actual agreement to be had?" Obama said.

"But I can tell you that they do so at their own peril right now. Because we will come down on them like a ton of bricks."

Hollande, meanwhile, said that he did not control French corporations but had made clear sanctions on Iran would not be dismantled until a final deal on Iran's nuclear program had been reached.
Posted by:Fred

#5  For some reason I think, he means IAF bombing Iranian nuclear facilities?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-02-12 10:35  

#4  I suppose a ton of bricks weighs more than a ton of line ink then?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-02-12 10:31  

#3  ..Halal Nerf (TM) Bricks.?
Posted by: Uncle Phester   2014-02-12 09:48  

#2  Another red line.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-02-12 08:54  

#1  A tonne of bricks eh? Nice talk. I'll take the tonne of bricks over his tonne of his bullshi*.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-02-12 04:03  

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