U.S. looks to sanctions on Iran's Quds force

[Scurrilous]

Source: Reuters

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"The Bush administration is looking at slapping sanctions on a unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps but has decided against naming the entire body a terrorist group, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

With some allies' support fading for tougher U.N. sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program, Washington plans more unilateral measures to pressure Iran, including sanctions on the Guards' Quds force, blamed for stoking violence in Iraq.

"The important thing is to send a signal that we are even more impatient and more disappointed. That requires stronger language and additional measures," said a senior U.S. official, who declined to be named as the issue is sensitive.

Last month, plans were leaked to U.S. media of the Bush administration's intent to label the entire Guard Corps a foreign terrorist group -- the first time the United States would place the armed forces of any sovereign government on its list of terrorist organizations."


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1228085820070912

[bemildred]

1. Stamp your foot, maybe that will work. nt

[TomInTib]

2. "The important thing is to send a signal that we are even more impatient and more disappointed"

What a bunch of spoiled, soft ChickenHawks.

[bemildred]

4. What a bunch of incompetent losers.

They have the fecal touch, everything they touch turns to shit. Name one thing they have not made a mess of. But nooooooooooooooo, it's not their fault, it's bad luck and other people not doing what they were supposed to, and so on.

:puke::puke:

[TomInTib]

6. Now that is totally unacceptable behavior, bemildred.

And you know it, and I know you know it, so stop it right now.

Did you hear me?

Don't make me have to say it again.

Or I'm tellin'.

[bemildred]

7. Cringe. Quiver. Ohhh, don't beat me, I won't do it again, I promise.

Cheney might get mad and explode, and then they would have to patch him together and inflate him again, and it would be all my fault.

[leftchick]

3. what is next?

and Iran War Resolution?? Oh wait, we had pretty much that in July from Lieberman that PASSED 97 -0!

:mad:

[Kagemusha]

5. Wimps! The world howled in outrage and they gave in!

That's so lame, they just folded completely. Where's the legalized piracy? Where's US courts impounding billions of dollars from allied nations' corporations for supporting a terrorist group? Come on, Cheney! Surely your clout is greater than this! How can you back down now! Lieberman is ashamed of you!

How's the world supposed to take the US seriously now? :sarcasm: