A senior Army strategist and Pentagon advisor is skeptical that any new sanctions against Iran will convince the rogue state to give up its nuclear weapons program.
Iranian lawmakers warned the U.S. and other world powers this week against pressuring Tehran over its nuclear program. The regime said that if the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany repeat what it calls "past mistakes," the parliament will consider "other decisions." The warning could be referring to a bill that calls on the government to speed up its uranium-enrichment activities. Tehran meets with the six world powers in Geneva on Thursday and will discuss the direction of its nuclear program. President Barack Obama is expected to give Iran another ultimatum and threaten further sanctions. But Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis (USA-Ret.) does not think sanctions against Iran will work. "The most egregious thing we could do against them [would be] to stop the importation of refined petroleum -- gasoline," Maginnis explains. "They have to import about 50 percent of what they need. And already [President] Hugo Chavez of Venezuela promises to give [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad 20,000 barrels a day of refined petroleum." The military strategist believes an American reaction to that would be ineffective. "Now of course, we could try to block that," he acknowledges, "but the Russians, if they decided to, they could rail in the petroleum. After all they have a lot of petroleum themselves. There are ways around every single sanction." Maginnis says China as well as the Russians will have to cooperate for any sanctions to work -- and that, he says, is highly unlikely.
If you believe OneNewsNow.com is an important source for Christian news, please consider a small tax-deductible gift for this service.
