Some U.S. allies not listening when it comes to Iran

Posted By Jared Mondschein Friday, August 13, 2010 - 10:53 AM Share

U.N. Security Council members Brazil and Turkey have chosen very different paths since they both voted against the latest round of U.N. sanctions on Iran. While Brazil has pledged to abide by the sanctions, despite their disagreement with them, Turkey's energy minister has vowed to bolster gasoline sales to Tehran. Turkey's gasoline sales have reportedly boomed to over five times their daily average, compared to the first half of this year. 

Turkey is not the only U.S. ally looking to increase trade with Iran. In Iraq, a new Iranian trade center has recently opened, and Iran's ambassador has promised to double trade between the two countries, which he estimated at about $7 billion last year.   

Russia -- though few might call it a close U.S. ally -- is also getting in on the act. Its state atomic corporation is set to load fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant next week.

It doesn't look like pressing more reset buttons with Turkey, Iraq or Russia is going to help the U.S. attempt to isolate Iran.

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CAMAELJAX

12:46 PM ET

August 13, 2010

Every coin has 2 sides

Or is it more to the point that the rest of the world has spoken on Iran (China, Russia, Inida, Brazil Turkey, Latin America, and the G-77) - and that it is the US and the EU that are not listening...The unipolar moment is over, the West does not dictate to the rest of the world anymore, get over it...

 

NICOLAS19

4:00 AM ET

August 17, 2010

I agree with the commenters

America wants to shove another meaningless war down the throats of the international community. They are pushing hard to isolate a country, discredit their whole population and wreck havoc there... without the slightest of evidence.

Don't have any illusion, though. The US and Israel will have the war they want, because they're more likely to act. The rest of the world is just too lazy to stand up against aggression.

 

NAIUY

11:08 PM ET

September 11, 2010

An interesting and well

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