- 15 October 2009
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- Congress, Diplomacy, Nuclear file, Sanctions
House Committee to Consider Gas Embargo
15 October 2009 Posted By Patrick Disney
Interesting timing of this Committee hearing announcement.
Chairman Howard Berman has decided not to wait for the outcome of next week’s meeting between the P5+1 and Iran in Vienna. Nor will he wait to see if Iran lives up to its promise to allow IAEA inspectors at the Qom nuclear facility by the October 25 deadline.
Regardless of how those events transpire, apparently the Chairman has made up his mind to pass a gas embargo as soon as possible.
FULL COMMITTEE MARKUP NOTICE
Committee on Foreign Affairs
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515-0128
Howard L. Berman (D-CA), Chairman
October 15, 2009
TO: MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
You are respectfully requested to attend an OPEN markup of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building, for the purpose of mark up of the following legislation:
DATE: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
TIME: 10:00 a.m.
MARKUP OF: H.R. 2194, Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009.
NOTE: Measures may be added.
By Direction of the Chairman
7 Responses to “House Committee to Consider Gas Embargo”
Why should they wait to see Iran lives up to their bargin. They have proven their answer over the past 30 years.
Even if Iran agrees to everything, signs, seals, and delivers no one should trust them.
very very good
http://www.iranhome.net
Oh yes, please do, let’s inflict hardship on ordinary Iranians, let’s make them suffer, do everything we can to see that their lives are made more miserable, yes let’s harm every ordinary Iranian person we possibly can…
All because our Zionist overlords tell us to do so…
For we are mindless American stooges and self-hating Iranians…
@Anonymous (October 16, 2009 at 12:07 pm)
You had me up until “Zionist overlords.”
Get a grip. U.S. self interest and irrational fear (both of which are in evidence) are enough to explain positions like our friend john’s.
There’s no need for an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
@Someone:
Educate yourself. Go to your public library and read: “The Israel Lobby” by John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt.
http://books.google.com/books?id=KrR_00AxrUcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=israel+lobby#v=onepage&q=&f=false
After reading up on the facts, then we’ll talk.
@Anonymous:
I actually read the paper it’s based on when it was published. Interesting hypothesis but the authors don’t meet their burden in my opinion and in that of many other scholars (it was a very controversial paper).
You may benefit from taking a look at an opposing view. Here’s Noam Chomsky’s response:
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/4134
Here’s another link to the Chomsky article in case the first one takes you to the z magazine funding drive page:
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20060328.htm