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Iran-Nuclear: U.S. State Dept. Official Urges Iran Trade Curb |
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Thursday, 01 December 2005 |
 NCRI - A top State Department official suggested Wednesday that
European and other nations might curb trade and investment in Iran if
the next round of negotiations does not succeed in halting Iran's drive
for nuclear weapons, reported the Associated Press.
"All of us around the world have to think about how we can influence
that government," said Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns. "And
that is certainly one way that many countries around the world can do
that."
If diplomacy fails, Burns said, a growing number of countries is likely
to consider such economic weapons as curbs on trade and investments.
"There is a growing diplomatic coalition to apply curbs, and other
countries have trade and other weapons," Burns said, contrasting their
ongoing commerce with Iran to a virtual U.S. freeze.
Burns cited assurances from India that it had no plans for an energy
agreement with Iran as an example of growing dissatisfaction with
Tehran worldwide.
"There was a time when the United States and a few other countries were
a lonely voice," Burns said. "That's no longer the case."
Burns stressed that Iran was determined to build nuclear weapons, was
the most avid supporter of terror groups in the world, and had a
dreadful human rights record, engaging in torture and summary
executions.
"Oppressive regimes do not survive forever," Burns told reporters.
In response to a question as to whether the U.S. would pursue a policy
of "regime change" in Iran as it did in deposing President Saddam
Hussein in neighboring Iraq, he said, "That is clearly the job of the
Iranian people.”
The current policy of appeasement pursued by the EU has been proven to
be a failure following the appointment of Ahmadinejad as the mullahs’
new president. In the meantime the foreign intervention to bring change
in Iran has been rejected by Iranians.
In December 2004 Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National
Council of Resistance of Iran told a meeting of European MPs in
Strasbourg that the solution to Iran problem is democratic change
through Iranian people and their resistance. To this end she has been
calling on Western governments to stop appeasing the mullahs and remove
the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), main Iranian
opposition group, from the terror list.
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