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U.S. Lifts Arms Sanctions on Russian Firms

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Posted on May 23, 2010
Hillary Clinton
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Hillary Clinton’s State Department has lifted sanctions on several Russian entities accused of selling technology that could help Iran, Syria or North Korea develop weapons of mass destruction or missile systems.

The U.S. has lifted sanctions on several Russian arms dealers, government and private, who were accused of aiding Iran’s effort to develop nuclear weapons, as Washington works to win Moscow’s support for a Security Council resolution aimed at expanding sanctions against Iran. —JCL

Reuters:

The State Department has lifted sanctions against Russia’s state arms trader and three other Russian entities it had accused of helping Iran try to develop nuclear weapons.

The United States has been trying to win Russia’s support for a U.N. Security Council resolution to expand sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. Russia approved a draft resolution that Washington circulated at the United Nations on Thursday.

State Department spokesman Andy Laine said Russia’s view on Iran “has evolved over time” and noted the country’s support for the draft resolution.

“We felt confident ... that we could lift these sanctions,” he said.

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By Eugenio Costa, May 24, 2010 at 6:59 am Link to this comment

Joke 3455:

“Despite having announced an official deal with China last week, US officials today admitted that all the details on anti-Iran sanctions still haven’t been ironed out with the Chinese government, and that it will be one of the major topics of discussion in the high level talks coming up this week.

Indeed, one official said that China had only agreed in the most vague of ways, and that the two sides remain sharply at odds over the issue. The US still has ‘substantial work,’ one official admitted, which would have to include convincing China of every single individual and company to be targeted.

Incredibly enough, though Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the China ‘deal’ on Tuesday there still has been virtually no public comment from China indicating any change in their long-standing position that diplomacy must come first and foremost. Now it seems that position hasn’t changed in any serious way and that the announcement, as
widely publicized as it was, doesn’t mean nearly as much as it seemed….”

Jason Ditz Antiwar.com

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By Druthers, May 23, 2010 at 10:41 pm Link to this comment

We can all buy arms from each other - The flowering of international commerce.
Here honey, have another bullet with that automatic.
There’s nothing like a good breakfast to start the day.

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By Eugenio Costa, May 23, 2010 at 3:29 pm Link to this comment

It’s really too bad about Hillary—she could have been a fox caught early enough. Instead look at her—she’s looks like she is rehearsing to be one of the less memorable Roman Emperors in the Historia Augusta.

She does even have class enough to be an alcoholic.

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By samosamo, May 23, 2010 at 11:17 am Link to this comment

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Just as always and anywhere and anytime, where is the proof of
Iran’s nuclear weapons program, beside the w & dick style of
claiming it is so which o so enthusiastically embraces. The is
nothing more than the usual claptrap chatter run up to invading
another sovereign nation for the profits of the MICC.

But hey, we keep electing these deceptive criminals so mostly we
all just shut the fuck up and let them do what they want, in
essense, maintain the status quo.

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By PatrickHenry, May 23, 2010 at 9:43 am Link to this comment

Good, maybe now I can buy that RPG-7 I always wanted.

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