On 7/31/06, Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie writes:
The Tel Aviv-Washington axis is indeed giving birth to a new Middle
East -- undoing its new Arab political allies (the "Lebanon First"
coalition, the Mahmoud Abbas faction) and making Hizbullah wildly
popular in Lebanon and the rest of the Middle East. But that means
that it will redouble its efforts to put economic sanctions on Iran.
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True, but will Russia and China go along and how effective would these
sanctions be - especially if oil, as seems likely, is exempted?
So far, Moscow and Beijing have held up against Washington better than
I imagined. But they remain wild cards, imho, and they could be
bought, like New Delhi, I'm afraid -- e.g. perhaps with deals on
issues like this:
<blockquote><http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060731/52060784.html>
Four countries yet to agree on Russia's WTO accession -Medvedkov
13:57 | 31/ 07/ 2006
TYUMEN, July 31 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has yet to reach agreements
with four countries on its bid to join the World Trade Organization, a
top negotiator at the WTO talks said Monday.
The United States, Costa Rica, Georgia, and Moldova could block
Russia's bid to join the largest international trade body if bilateral
agreements are not reached, Maxim Medvedkov, who heads the trade talks
department at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, said at
a business conference in western Siberia.</blockquote>
I also fear the economic impacts of rising interest rates in Japan,
the USA, and the rest of the world, which will narrow Iran's options
as well as Latin America's and other developing nations'.
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Yoshie
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