Chirac calls for threat of Iran sanctions to be lifted
The concession to Iran seems to be linked to events in Lebanon, where there had been concern that French soldiers may be targeted by Iran's proxy militia, Hizbollah, over France's previously hardline stance in the nuclear negotiations.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1619246.ece
2006-09-19 03:56:13 · 8 answers · asked by ABC 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Chirac is a wuss and will do anything that Putin or Iran tell him to. He has allowed the levels of Muslims to get too high in his country and now they are making policy. But in Chiracs defense, what he said was he will back off on the threat of sanctions if Iran will back off on the enrichment. So the talks can continue.
2006-09-19 03:59:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It makes sense, if you suspect the call for sanctions to be an initial step in the same sequence of events that led to the destruction of Iraq.
Besides, if you really want to negotiate with somebody you don't start with threats.
Everything the US are doing at the moment seems to be geared to generate an excuse to attack Iran. Since they are too strung out already to do this in a conventional war, I would not put it past the present US gouvernment to use nuclear arms.
"but it was the only way to save you all" they will then tell us.
2006-09-19 04:03:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ill bet Iran made France a sweet deal on oil.
2006-09-19 04:20:00 · answer #3 · answered by Kelly T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He probably wants France to keep doing business with Iran.
2006-09-19 04:06:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
undergo in techniques he voted 'contemporary' over a hundred situations interior the Senate. he's doing his damnedest to evade having to actual cope with this difficulty head on. i think you heard he additionally gutted the sanctions even further by persevering with to allow Russian missile technologies and kit to be exported to Iran. sturdy question and that i will provide you a celeb for the avatar on my own. )
2016-10-17 06:40:19 · answer #5 · answered by avey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, his position makes sense if he wants Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment. It wont, even if sanctions are imposed, so to achieve that he wants to explore a different route.
So, it isn't really a change in policy, but a realization that sanctions wont really work against Iran.
2006-09-19 04:05:00 · answer #6 · answered by dane 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Forget it...he's French. They blow whichever way the wind goes. World War One and Two are prime examples. Forget them...they're the clown princes of Europe.
No civilized nation gives a hoot what the French think anyway.
2006-09-19 03:58:21 · answer #7 · answered by Quasimodo 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He is only thinking about the money his country would lose. Nothing more.
2006-09-19 04:05:30 · answer #8 · answered by fatboysdaddy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋