Reuters: Obama Signs Exec Order Blocking All Assets Of Iranian Gov't Held In U.S.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/06/us-iran-usa-assets-urgent-idUSTRE81519Q20120206Obama signs executive order freezing Iran
WASHINGTON | Mon Feb 6, 2012 10:39am EST
(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Monday imposing new, stricter sanctions on Iran and its central bank, saying a broader asset freeze was necessary because Iranian banks were concealing transactions.
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The executive order, described as a further step in the U.S. effort to isolate Iran, prevents any assets deemed to be in U.S. control - including foreign branches of American banks - from being transferred, paid, exported or withdrawn.
https://twitter.com/#!/Reuters/status/166543335635435521
@Reuters: FLASH: Obama signs executive order blocking all assets of the Iranian government, including central bank held in the United States.
https://research.tdwaterhouse.ca/research/public/Markets/NewsArticle/1314-L2E8D66JS-1
8 minutes ago by Thomson Reuters
OBAMA SAYS ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS WERE WARRANTED IN LIGHT OF DECEPTIVE PRACTICES OF IRAN CENTRAL BANK AND OTHER IRANIAN BANKS TO CONCEAL TRANSACTIONS
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xchrom
(108,903 posts)Historic NY
(37,453 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,022 posts)Thanks for the link. Disturbing (but not surprising) stuff!
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)It took a lot of pages to document the horrors of the Koch brothers.
lindysalsagal
(20,730 posts)If that's true, some of his money just dried up. Let's have a bake sale for the poor lad.
DippyDem
(659 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Predictable as hell.
DUIC
(167 posts)I wonder how Romney will spin this? "Obama is being too soft on Iran because he did not go out and spend the money"?
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)up to Obama on foreign affairs.
kickysnana
(3,908 posts)Jesus is coming. Look busy.
The Northerner
(5,040 posts)And when have sanctions ever been successful?
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)*sigh*
Robb
(39,665 posts)DUIC
(167 posts)South African sanctions has changed the course of Africa. Sanctions can work, but require consistency.
fujiyama
(15,185 posts)The Iranian government never reciprocated.
24601
(3,962 posts)entitled to nukes as the US. Gotta go with Pres Obama on this one.
octothorpe
(962 posts)any other country.
24601
(3,962 posts)octothorpe
(962 posts)No ahem... Here in the US we actually have politicians advocating striking Iran. Israel is doing it too. There are people in the US government talking seriously about attacking Iran. And considering our track record with Iran's neighbors, it's not exactly far fetched. So I'm not following why we're allowed to discuss taking out countries and still have nuclear weapons, but Iran is totally not allowed to.
I'd still rather Iran not have nuclear weapons, but I don't think we hold any moral high ground here. And to be perfectly honest, I can't blame them for wanting to develop nuclear weapons. Put yourself in their shoes.. Although, this is even assuming they truly are developing nuclear weapons. Aren't several groups saying they scraped most of their nuclear weapons programs? I know the US and some others are saying that's not the case, but it's difficult to take them at their word considering the whole Iraq fiasco.
kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)They too have an axe to grind against Iran. Several times Saudi Arabia has been pressuring us to strike Iran militarily. As much as many people want to believe that Israel is the voice we listen to in the region, the Saudi's have a hell of a lot more sway with us due to their control of the largest oil fields in the world.
Really there is almost no military reason to strike Iran. Iran would not be stupid enough to get into a conflict with Israel with nuclear weapons. It would be suicide. A nuclear strike on the US would have similar results.
Iran wants respect and though this is an idiotic way of going about it they are aware that possessing nuclear weaponry puts you in a different place diplomatically.
nanabugg
(2,198 posts)Hotler
(11,445 posts)of the Wall St. banksters. Oh! I forgot. You said they didn't do anything illegal. Never mind.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Johnson20
(315 posts)fujiyama
(15,185 posts)This is what the US should have done to the Saudi Arabian government after 9/11.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)You mean, like Crown Prince Abdullah, Dubya's hand-holding and kissing partner?
Or the Saudi royal Family, oilmen after bu$h and Cheney's own hearts?
24601
(3,962 posts)carried out the 9-11 attacks oppose the Saudi government. So we reward the attackers by attacking their enemies? Shit, why not just attack Tibet, after all, they are tied to China?