Obama Administration Slaps New Sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

Sanctions are a joke. They have never worked in any country, to effect change.
Let’s be brutally honest….in international dealings, money talks, and Iran has oil money and plenty of it. They can get anything they want, sanctions or no sanctions, because they can pay.
It is that simple.

Too little too late bo!

“Sanctions are a joke. They have never worked in any country, to effect change”
Oh yeah? Do you mean sanctions specifically or economic warfare in general; because at times during the 50′s and 60′s about 2/3rds of the people on Earth were communists. It’s not true now so when did the giant war that liberated many of them take place? Economic warfare can be incredibly successful even against foes who have natural resources if you’re patient enough to implement it effectively.

Economic warfare can be incredibly successful even against foes who have natural resources if you’re patient enough to implement it effectively.
Posted by: Skip | Feb 10, 2010 12:53:55 PM
The problem is in that last word: “effectively”.

Obama said “the door is still open” if Iran wants to come around.
In other words Obama is still “hoping” his charm will work, and he’s leaving the door open for Iran to mock him more.

It just may be Obama overestimated the size and scope of his leadership skills as well…

There are a lot of assets frozen in D.C., as well.

Michelle is being cutoff from her J Crew goodies.. among other important sanctions…

President Obama said he’s “bent over backwards” to engage Iran in “constructive” dialogue and the U.S. will push the United Nations to sanction the country, which announced Tuesday that it has begun enriching uranium to 20 percent purity level.
“That indicates to us that despite their posturing that their nuclear power is only for, for civilian use that they in fact continue to pursue a course that would lead to weaponization,” Obama said during a press conference Tuesday. “That is not acceptable to the international community.Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Obama White House has gone further than any administration to reach out to Iran, and called the move “disappointing.” He said Tehran is violating a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and is refusing to sign off on an IAEA-brokered deal that would allow Tehran to be supplied with nuclear fuel for its medical reactor in exchange for its low-enriched uranium (LEU).
“I have never seen an administration reach out in as principled and comprehensive a way as President Obama has done,” Gates said in a press conference Tuesday in Ankara, Turkey. “The response has been quite disappointing.”
Iran has defied five U.N. Security Council resolutions — and three sets of U.N. sanctions — aimed at pressuring it to freeze enrichment, and has instead steadily expanded its program.

The President should call a summit with Iranian officials and have it televised live on CSpan. LOL!!

Posted by: lfrichar | Feb 10, 2010 3:04:17 PM
LMAO I bet Iran is shaking in their boots at this made for TV president
Posted by: What? | Feb 10, 2010 12:52:25 PM
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Iran developed its secret nuclear facility on the last Republican president’s watch. North Korea tested its first nuclear weapon on the last Republican president’s watch. Bin Laden and al Qaeda escaped in Afghanistan on the last Republican president’s watch.
Your scorn is misplaced.
Posted by: tierra | Feb 10, 2010 2:44:11 PM
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You seem to have missed the whole point lfrichar. The point was Republican right types are mindlessly hacking away at our current President not realizing the Republican president had no better results and fared far worse.

tierra’s claim that North Korea successfully tested a nuclear weapon during George Bush’s watch is not true.The test during the Bush administration never achieved fission-it was a dud from a nuclear standpoint.Only when Obama was elected did the North Koreans dare to detonate a true fission device.

tierra’s claim that North Korea successfully tested a nuclear weapon during George Bush’s watch is not true.The test during the Bush administration never achieved fission-it was a dud from a nuclear standpoint.Only when Obama was elected did the North Koreans dare to detonate a true fission device.
Posted by: Nephron | Feb 10, 2010 8:07:03 PM
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Nonsense. Even the smallest amount of research would have led you to the actual facts.
“Air samples from North Korea confirm that a nuclear explosion was carried out a week ago, US intelligence officials say.
“Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte said the findings came after analysis of radioactive debris detected at the site of the test.
“This the first official US confirmation that a nuclear detonation took place.”
BBC
October 16, 2006

tierra’s claim that North Korea successfully tested a nuclear weapon during George Bush’s watch is not true.
Posted by: Nephron | Feb 10, 2010 8:07:03 PM
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Nonsense. Even the smallest amount of research would have led you to the actual facts.
“Air samples from North Korea confirm that a nuclear explosion was carried out a week ago, US intelligence officials say.
“Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte said the findings came after analysis of radioactive debris detected at the site of the test.
“This the first official US confirmation that a nuclear detonation took place.”
BBC October 16, 2006
Posted by: tierra | Feb 10, 2010 10:34:28 PM
“An anonymous official at the North Korean Embassy in Beijing told a South Korean newspaper that the explosive output was smaller than expected.[4] Because of the secretive nature of North Korea and small yield of the test, there remains some question as to whether it was an unusually small successful test, or a partially failed “fizzle” or dud.” -wikipedia

Nonsense.tierra quotes initial reports that were soon questioned as data was reviewed.Radioactive debris would be detected at any nuclear attempt if the priming explosion is successful,which is essentially a given.Those isotopes that are a product of successful fission were not seen in quantities that would be expected with a successful test.By the nature of fission physics a successful test will almost certainly have to have a yield of 5-10 kts at a minimum.Smaller nuclear explosions are difficult to plan or carry out as initial tests.It took years for the U.S. to develop tactical special weapons of lower yield.It has to do with the critical mass of fissile material to intiate a chain reaction;there are other factors such as device volume,shape,etc.The bottom line is that the first PDROK test did not achieve a sustained reaction.QED.

You would think that as proficient as Obama is at back stabbing, lying and generally throwing people under the bus, that undermining Iran politically would be childs play…after all he is trained in the “Chicago way”

Luckily for Obama his few remaining supporters are as dense as blocks of wood.
ABC and ALL THE OTHER LEFTIST viciously attacked anybody who pointed out, as shown NOW, that Iran nor NK did not care about the marxist “messiah” and his “charm”. Oh no, Barry Obama was going to charm the mullahs and thugs with his pearly whites and magnificent pecs. Wonder if Mahmoud has the poster of Barry with his shirt off like all the Obama groupies have over their beds? All the problems of the world were going to be solved when Obama sent them Valentine cards and gave his asinine Cairo speech and claimed that America was really a Muslim nation?
Face reality you fools, you lack the brain power to handle the real world and its facts, please for the sake of our children stop voting. You simply aren’t up to the task, stay with American Idol.

ODNI1906:”The explosion yield was less than one kiloton”