BRUSSELS - The European Union tightened trade sanctions against Iran yesterday for defying a longstanding international demand to freeze uranium enrichment.
The new EU restrictions go slightly beyond existing UN trade sanctions and are designed to deny public loans or export credits to companies trading with Iran. France, which holds the rotating EU presidency, said European governments would also carefully watch financial groups doing business with Iranian banks and step up checks on ships and airplanes traveling to Iran.
WTF does that mean, exactly? A BLOCKADE?
If so, then THAT'S a DECLARATION of WAR and the Iranians have EVERY RIGHT to consider it as such!!!!
Britain, the United States, and their allies want to go further with their own sanctions targeting oil and gas and the finance sector that could badly hit Iran's already fragile economy. The tough independent sanctions would be a bid to overcome opposition from veto-wielding Security Council members China and Russia to a hardening of UN sanctions, a senior British official said yesterday.
Oil-rich Iran draws 80 percent of its revenues from energy exports and is already suffering from high inflation and rampant unemployment.
Then WTF?!?! How, tell me HOW can they be SUCH a THREAT and POWER?!!!!!
The British official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of ongoing negotiations, said the measures would be in addition to - not in place of - a fourth set of tougher Security Council penalties, which Britain expects to be considered in New York in October or November.
I don't think USrael is going to wait that long.
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