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by Xu Yanyan |
By Andrew Murray-Watson
03 December 2006 Several of the UK's largest banks fear they could face the full legislative wrath of the US government unless they bow to Washington's pressure to shut their operations in Iran.
It is believed that officials in President George Bush's administration have also put pressure on banks with operations in the US, including RBS, HSBC and Barclays, to stop acting on behalf of UK business customers in Iran. Barclays, it is thought, has already told its corporate clients that it will not accept deposits from transactions originating in Iran. |
PARIS, Dec 7, 2006 (AFP)
France is ready to send drones flying over southern Lebanon to back the UN-mandated peacekeeping force there, a defence ministry spokesman said Thursday.
"It's an issue on which we are available to act, but we'll need a decision from the UN department for peacekeeping operations," spokesman Jean-François Bureau said. |
PARIS, Dec 6, 2006 (AFP)
The powers making up the UN Security Council are agreed that "there will be sanctions" against Iran, though their extent is yet to be decided, France said Wednesday, after a Paris meeting on Tehran's nuclear programme.
Comment: So when are we going to see sanctions on Israel for their nuclear programme, which is allowed to continue and develop without any threat of sanctions.
Come to think of it, when are we going to see any international condemnation of Israeli war crimes, for the apartheid wall, for the slaughter of the Palestinians? Uh, sorry. We must have been dreaming for a moment. |
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
08 December 2006 Differences have emerged between Tony Blair and George Bush on strategy in the Middle East, even as the two leaders agreed that a major change of course was necessary in Iraq in the wake of the devastating critique delivered this week by a high-level bipartisan panel in Washington.
In a first sign of the intensified regional diplomatic drive urged by the Iraq Study Group (ISG), the Prime Minister will visit Israel and the Palestinian Territories - probably within the next 10 days or so - to try to break the logjam over the failure of the Palestinians to come up with a unity government to embark on new negotiations. The mission had the full support of the US, Mr Bush declared. But at a joint press conference after a White House meeting yesterday, the President ruled out early talks with Iran and Syria, as the ISG strongly recommended and on which Britain seems much keener. |
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