Reuters: Obama Signs Exec Order Blocking All Assets Of Iranian Gov't Held In U.S.

Thanks for the link. Disturbing (but not surprising) stuff!

It took a lot of pages to document the horrors of the Koch brothers.

If that's true, some of his money just dried up. Let's have a bake sale for the poor lad.

Predictable as hell.

I wonder how Romney will spin this? "Obama is being too soft on Iran because he did not go out and spend the money"?

up to Obama on foreign affairs.

Jesus is coming. Look busy.

And when have sanctions ever been successful?

*sigh*

South African sanctions has changed the course of Africa. Sanctions can work, but require consistency.

The Iranian government never reciprocated.

entitled to nukes as the US. Gotta go with Pres Obama on this one.

any other country.

No ahem... Here in the US we actually have politicians advocating striking Iran. Israel is doing it too. There are people in the US government talking seriously about attacking Iran. And considering our track record with Iran's neighbors, it's not exactly far fetched. So I'm not following why we're allowed to discuss taking out countries and still have nuclear weapons, but Iran is totally not allowed to.


I'd still rather Iran not have nuclear weapons, but I don't think we hold any moral high ground here. And to be perfectly honest, I can't blame them for wanting to develop nuclear weapons. Put yourself in their shoes.. Although, this is even assuming they truly are developing nuclear weapons. Aren't several groups saying they scraped most of their nuclear weapons programs? I know the US and some others are saying that's not the case, but it's difficult to take them at their word considering the whole Iraq fiasco.

They too have an axe to grind against Iran. Several times Saudi Arabia has been pressuring us to strike Iran militarily. As much as many people want to believe that Israel is the voice we listen to in the region, the Saudi's have a hell of a lot more sway with us due to their control of the largest oil fields in the world.

Really there is almost no military reason to strike Iran. Iran would not be stupid enough to get into a conflict with Israel with nuclear weapons. It would be suicide. A nuclear strike on the US would have similar results.

Iran wants respect and though this is an idiotic way of going about it they are aware that possessing nuclear weaponry puts you in a different place diplomatically.

of the Wall St. banksters. Oh! I forgot. You said they didn't do anything illegal. Never mind.

This is what the US should have done to the Saudi Arabian government after 9/11.

You mean, like Crown Prince Abdullah, Dubya's hand-holding and kissing partner?
Or the Saudi royal Family, oilmen after bu$h and Cheney's own hearts?

carried out the 9-11 attacks oppose the Saudi government. So we reward the attackers by attacking their enemies? Shit, why not just attack Tibet, after all, they are tied to China?