Clinton seeks Gulf aid for Iran sanctions, Iraq
AFP / Lachlan Carmichael
08-Jan-2011 (one comment)

WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was to leave Saturday for a tour of Gulf Arab allies in a bid to tighten sanctions against Iran and win greater support for Iraq's new government, officials said.

In her five-day trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman and Qatar, Clinton will also urge the region's governments, civil society and business community to cooperate more to advance democratic, economic and social reforms, they said.

It will be her second trip to the energy-rich Gulf in around a month, following her visit to Bahrain in early December.

A senior State Department official told reporters that Clinton will ask Gulf Arab leaders for insight into events in Iran, which is just across the Gulf, and discuss how to make progress in new multilateral nuclear talk

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Simorgh5555

Clinton not serious about tackling terror regime

by Simorgh5555 on Sat Jan 08, 2011 01:59 PM PST

Clinton's policies and general approach towards the terrorist regime is far from clear. Clinton verges on two extremes: On the one hand she threatens the Iranian nation with anihilation and the next minute it is reported that she was literally pursuing the terrorist regime foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki at an international conference. Her new talks with the head of the Arab governments in in the UAE is another example of her twin track policy; she seeks support for sanctions against the IRI but at the same time she is asking the Arab government heads support for the Iraqi government who takes orders from their terrorirst brethren in Iran. To support the current government in Iraq is support for the IR.


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