Same old, same old
Those who complain about how Swiss neutrality means ignoring sanctions on Iran fail to understand two things: Nothing excites a Swiss government official like the sight of a Nazi. And Swiss neutrality is meant to advance one thing and one thing only: Swiss wealth.With a new round of EU and US Iran sanctions to be implemented on July 1, there is growing frustration from the American side that the Swiss have failed to join the Western coalition trying to stymie Iran’s nuclear work.It should be obvious which side they're on: Their own. But then, isn't the same true of Obama?
“We expressed our disappointment. We would like them to do it [follow the EU on Iran sanctions],” US Ambassador Donald Beyer told a news conference in Geneva in earlier this month.
In an email to The Jerusalem Post on Saturday, Josh Block, a senior fellow at the Washington- based Progressive Policy Institute and a former spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, wrote, “It is incomprehensible that the Swiss government would seek to undermine global pressure on Iran that is designed to blunt Tehran’s dangerous nuclear ambitions. A respectable member of the international community would not allow its banking system to help Iran evade sanctions, yet it appears the Swiss government is shamefully doing exactly that.
“It begs the question, whose side are they on, Tehran or the West?” Block asked.
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Labels: Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat, Swiss anti-Semitism
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:22 AM
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