Friday, May 23, 2008

U.S. brands hang on in sanctions-hit Sudan, Iran

Pop into Paytakht shopping centre in Iran's capital and you can snap up a new Dell laptop, choose from a range of Motorola handsets and compare them with the latest Apple iPhone.

These products are among prominent U.S. brands that have stayed on shop shelves in Sudan and Iran in the face of some of the toughest trade restrictions ever imposed

http://us.mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/AnyArticle/p.rdt?URL=http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSL143118120080522

Seriously folks the Americans can't even control their own people, and they want to impose sanctions.

Another nuke diversion

"Our plan also provides that the multilateral partnership would take over all Iranian enrichment related facilities, not just the centrifuges," Thomson said. "In addition there would be international personnel on duty at every stage of the enrichment operation - on each shift in the plant, in personnel management ... in the guard rooms, etc."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/23/iran.nuclear

This is just another effort by the Seyyeds to waste time whilst they carry on making their Mahdi bomb.