Bush's bid to Punish Iranian Banks Stalls
By Farah Stockman The Boston GlobePublished: December 18, 2007
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration's new policy of penalizing Iranian banks is facing a critical challenge as financial institutions in Russia, China and much of the Middle East decline to cut ties, analysts and diplomats say.
Even Afghanistan and Iraq have so far declined to take action against Bank Melli, Iran's largest public financial institution, which was among the first foreign banks to open branches in Kabul and Baghdad.
"Nothing is happening," Sinan Shabibi, governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, said recently by telephone.
The world reaction to the U.S. sanctions on Bank Melli, which operates as Iran's central bank overseas, will determine whether President George W. Bush's new tool against Iran is a failure or a success.
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If world refusals mean NO WAR in Iran, so be it.
2007-12-19 13:05:07 · 6 answers · asked by rare2findd 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
oh please Bob
we need to stop so much big talk. We're in a big dark dank hold and everyone knows it. Everyone across the world knows the Bush administration is on its way out. And so they are taking advantage of it.
You sound like you're trying desparately to claw your way out of that hole.
Not happening.
Thanks to Busgh, we have a long way to go.
and yes we will persevere.
but the cost my friend. the cost.
2007-12-19 14:30:49 · update #1
....and stop believing that by inviting those who do not agree with you to "go to Iran" makes you totally correct about what you believe. No one has to go anywhere if they do not follow your lead.
2007-12-19 14:32:45 · update #2
hmm, maybe this is why half the world calls our government a "rogue government".
2007-12-19 13:27:20 · answer #1 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Go move to Iran. The country is run by a goofy little dictator and a few religious nut jobs. Who cares what they think. If you screw with the US you're going to pay a price and Bush is making them pay the price for screwing with us. That's what happens when you try and intimidate the big kid on the playground. Eventually you get your @ss kicked.
2007-12-19 13:08:33 · answer #2 · answered by Bob 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You sure that by doing no action there will be no war. What if by doing nothing it leads to war? Doing nothing can prevent war, and it can encourage war.
Doing nothing actually prevented the Cuban missile crisis from escalating. Yet, by doing nothing Britain encouraged Hitler towards more aggressive tactics leading to war.
2007-12-20 07:57:50 · answer #3 · answered by rz1971 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Umm, you don't understand how the game works. If we can't put sanctions on Iran, then Israel will attack them that much sooner. Which when Israel attacks Iran, we will be dragged in since we have to undyingly support our super duper best friend Israel.
2007-12-19 13:12:41 · answer #4 · answered by Arcanum Noctis 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
information that a liberal isn't happy. We enforce the UN Resolutions without UN help, you *****....we ask the UN to enforce their Resolutions in Iran, you *****. Are you men ever happy?
2016-11-23 16:18:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If any group of people is aware of the problems that can be caused by having their country run by a goofy little guy and some relegious wack jobs, it is us the last seven years!!!
2007-12-19 13:16:41 · answer #6 · answered by Scott H 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋