The word from the White House is that this would send a bad signal to Iran at a time when the diplomatic option is reaching its peak,” an aide said. On Oct. 3, the Treasury Department is said to have suspended the activities of its office that enforces sanctions on Iran. The U.S. website Daily Beast reported that 90 percent of staffers in Treasury’s Office of Terrorist Financing and Intelligence were given furloughs amid the shutdown of the federal government. “As a result, OFAC is unable to sustain its core functions of: issuing new sanctions designations against those enabling the governments of Iran and Syria as well as terrorist organizations, WMD proliferators, narcotics cartels, and transnational organized crime groups; investigating and penalizing sanctions violations; issuing licenses to authorize humanitarian and other important activities that might otherwise be barred by sanctions; and issuing new sanctions prohibitions and guidance,” a Treasury Department spokesman was quoted as saying. The House sanctions package, which targeted oil exports, was meant to close loopholes in the current U.S.-led crackdown on Iran. House members also complained that the Obama administration had been ignoring enforcement of U.S. sanctions. In September, House and Senate leaders met to discuss ways to close the loopholes. So far, the legislation provided the president with a right to waive sanctions, and in September the administration removed restrictions on humanitarian aide and a sports exchange with Teheran. The aides said Obama and European Union leaders, ahead of talks with Teheran in Geneva, Switzerland on Oct. 15, have agreed to suspend The president wanted to lift the sanctions. So here we are USA with a president that should be tried for treason. Obama welcomed the government shutdown along with all the other demoncrats. Just another way for the demoncrats to kill the USA.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:55:19 +0000
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