Report: U.S. to block Iran sanctions at G8 summit

[bijou]

The United States is opposed to enacting a new set of financial sanctions against Iran that are due to be discussed in the G8 summit next week, diplomatic officials in New York reported Friday.

According to officials, sanctions against Iran are expected to top the G8's agenda. Sources are also predicting a pointed debate between the heads of the industrialized nations over an appropriate response to Iranian authorities' suppression of reformist demonstrations in Iran led by Mir Hossein Mousavi and other Iranian opposition leaders.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hinted in a newspaper interview earlier in the week that the G8 is due to decide on new financial sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Berlusconi disclosed that he had spoken with the heads of the G8 nations and has discussed such steps with them.
   

According to the Italian prime minister, "the general leaning [among G8 leaders] is toward sanctions."

However, diplomatic sources in New York reported that American officials are working behind the scenes to prevent new sanctions from being imposed against Iran.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097644.html

[thundley4]

I'll bet that Dear Leader would like to impose sanctions on Honduras until they reinstall the "rightful" dictator.

[Lord Undies]

I'll bet that Dear Leader would like to impose sanctions on Honduras until they reinstall the "rightful" dictator.

I'm trying to catch up on the Honduras situation.  I missed a lot being "not home".  I do know it is driving the Little Goons into new depths of misery, so it must be a great thing for free people.

[Lacarnut]

We have a bonafide wuz in the White House.

[Ptarmigan]

Actually, it was not even a coup in Honduras. They were enforcing the law.