House Resolution Calls for Naval Blockade against Iran

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House Resolution Calls for Naval Blockade against Iran

A US House of Representatives Resolution effectively requiring a naval blockade on Iran seems fast tracked for passage, gaining co-sponsors at a remarkable speed, but experts say the measures called for in the resolutions amount to an act of war.
H.CON.RES 362 calls on the president to stop all shipments of refined petroleum products from reaching Iran. It also "demands" that the President impose "stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains and cargo entering or departing Iran."
Analysts say that this would require a US naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.
Since its introduction three weeks ago, the resolution has attracted 146 cosponsors. Forty-three members added their names to the bill in the past two days.
In the Senate, a sister resolution S.RES 580 has gained co-sponsors with similar speed. The Senate measure was introduced by Indiana Democrat Evan Bayh on June 2. In little more than a week’s time, it has accrued 19 co-sponsors.
AIPAC's Endorsement

Congressional insiders credit America’s powerful pro-Israel lobby for the rapid endorsement of the bills. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) held its annual policy conference June 2-4, in which it sent thousands of members to Capitol Hill to push for tougher measures against Iran. On its website, AIPAC endorses the resolutions as a way to ''Stop Irans Nuclear Proliferation" and tells readers to lobby Congress to pass the bill.
AIPAC has been ramping up the rhetoric against Iran over the last 3 years delivering 9 issue memos to Congress in 2006, 17 in 2007 and in the first five months of 2008 has delivered no less than 11 issue memos to the Congress and Senate predominantly warning of Irans nuclear weapons involvement and support for terrorism.
The Resolutions put forward in the House and the Senate bear a resounding similarity to AIPAC analysis and Issue Memos in both its analysis and proposals even down to its individual components.
Proponents say the resolutions advocate constructive steps toward reducing the threat posed by Iran. "It is my hope that…this Congress will urge this and future administrations to lead the world in economically isolating Iran in real and substantial ways," said Congressman Mike Pence(R-IN), who is the original cosponsor of the House resolution along with Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Chairman of the sub committee on Middle East and South Asia of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Foreign policy analysts worry that such unilateral sanctions make it harder for the US to win the cooperation of the international community on a more effective multilateral effort. In his online blog, Senior Fellow in the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Ethan Chorin points out that some US allies seek the economic ties to Iran that these resolutions ban. "The Swiss have recently signed an MOU with Iran on gas imports; the Omanis are close to a firm deal (also) on gas imports from Iran; a limited-services joint Iranian-European bank just opened a branch on Kish Island," he writes.
These resolutions could severely escalate US-Iran tensions, experts say. Recalling the perception of the naval blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the international norms classifying a naval blockade an act of war, critics argue endorsement of these bills would signal US intentions of war with Iran.
Last week’s sharp rise in the cost of oil following Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz’s threat to attack Iran indicated the impact that global fear of military action against Iran can have on the world petroleum market. It remains unclear if extensive congressional endorsement of these measures could have a similar effect.
In late May, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reportedly urged the United States to impose a blockade on Iran. During a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in Jersusalem, Olmert said economic sanctions have "exhausted themselves" and called a blockade a "good possibility."


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One of Britain's colonial satellites continue the Great Game... that is at least how I expect history will describe the USA. This is the end of it at any rate, the tipping point IMO, where once America is stopped we will see the end of such overt imperialism. I expect that will take another world war unfortunately.
 

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The US is crazy if they open up a war on three fronts. Their country is almost bankrupt! I'm sure most countries will pull out of Afghanistan. Russia and China may very well hold true to their word and defend Iran. This could get messy IMO.
 

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How happy is the E.U. going to be about this, they have a lot invested in Iran just like they did in Iraq before the U.S. Invaded there I seem to remember something about France and Germany losing alot of dough over that- We may very well see some countries imposing sanctions on the U.S.
 

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I agree. People tend to forget the Rhineland, Sudetenland and then all of Czechoslovakia. They were invaded to prevent "terrorism" and for German security. The Germans fought insurgents in those places too. We tend to think WWII started with Poland but in reality it started before that with Germany's unlawful conduct. It really does look like history could be repeating itself. I hope the USA doesn't do this thing.
 

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Amazing, Global Research provides the full text of Resolution 362, uses the word "effectively" and everyone assumed the US is about to maneuver warships to block all naval activity.

Nice picture of warships btw. :roll:

Read the resolution. It's talking restricting Iran's foreign assets. The EU has already done it, the US is in the process.

Facts people, facts.
 

thomaska

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Amazing, Global Research provides the full text of Resolution 362, uses the word "effectively" and everyone assumed the US is about to maneuver warships to block all naval activity.

Nice picture of warships btw. :roll:

Read the resolution. It's talking restricting Iran's foreign assets. The EU has already done it, the US is in the process.

Facts people, facts.

There you go...spoiling everone's Freaky Friday morning fun...:angryfire:
 

darkbeaver

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Some elements want to wait till we have smoking holes where Iranian cities used to be before verifying war. This is stupid especially based on the record of the aggressor nations who if you'll remember lied thier way into Iraq and Afghanistan with for all intents and purposes the exact same preamble about axis of evil membership, terrorists, democrasy, family values blah blah blah, hitler carried out a similar incremental envelopement, in fact it's a fundemental element of terrestrial warfare, don't be fooled Uncle Sham is a failed rogue terrorist state owned and operated by corporate fascists and zionists, they should be liberated.
 

darkbeaver

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Amazing, Global Research provides the full text of Resolution 362, uses the word "effectively" and everyone assumed the US is about to maneuver warships to block all naval activity.

Nice picture of warships btw. :roll:

Read the resolution. It's talking restricting Iran's foreign assets. The EU has already done it, the US is in the process.

Facts people, facts.

You haven't quoted any facts.
 

Praxius

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Amazing, Global Research provides the full text of Resolution 362, uses the word "effectively" and everyone assumed the US is about to maneuver warships to block all naval activity.

Nice picture of warships btw. :roll:

Read the resolution. It's talking restricting Iran's foreign assets. The EU has already done it, the US is in the process.

Facts people, facts.

Yeah... Facts indeed.... all the US's actions so far have been based on what they figured were "Facts"

Everybody now knows they were lies and mis-information. Of course I knew it from the start.

Osama was supposed to be in Afghanistan but wasn't. Iraq was supposed to be building up all kinds of WOMD, and Saddam was planning to attack the US and threaten your way of life. The Patriot Act was supposed to be this great and wonderful thing, and then after a while everybody started to notice all the twisted words and loopholes in it. Same with Git./Cuba. Same With your interogations/torturing, same with your racial profiling at airports that send innocent people to forign countries to be tortured for years and then ditched in some other forign country hoping they'll die before they get back to Western media to tell their story. Same with Bush's bill passed not too long ago that gave him more powers in case of a national emergency which he can label in anyway he wished, so that he can retain his power of president beyond his term.

And yet again, here's more information that is all screwed up, based on unfounded information and no proof of what's actually going on, and will start another war that you guys have no clue how to win and we'll all go through this all over again, only much worse then before.

And even when your own intelligence agencies claim that Iran isn't working on nuclear weapons, your leader downplays that information with his holier then thou ignorant knowlege of what's truly happening and he sticks to his guns.... He stays the course..... the exact same damn thing he did with Iraq.

Even when the facts and information is thrown in your guy's face, your rose colored glasses seem to twist it into "Oh well it couldn't be that, we wouldn't do that... you guys are exaggerating." ~ And yet with more and more reports and people speaking out towards the US's Atrocities, soldiers coming back from Iraq telling of how their commanding officers ordered them to kill unarmed civilians and plant weapons or IED tools on them to make them look like insurgents, raping women and children, treating them like animals, air striking entire villages and claiming the civilians killed were collateral and shouldn't have been there in the first place...... you guys still just don't fk'n get it do you?!

You guys in the US seriously have to get some new history books in your schools and get some proper international education. I'd recommend some history books that don't date back to the civil war. You just might actually see some of the patterns you guys are repeating.

You know something? The World doesn't want the US as the World Police, we don't want you guys constantly meddling into other countries' affairs where it is unwarrented, we're tired of you guys lieing to everybody to suit your own corrupt objectives and if your country takes this action, you just screwed yourselves as a country in whole.

The US is hitting an insane national debt due to the current wars, your dollar value has turned to crap, people are losing their jobs, losing their homes, losing their crops and losing their food..... not to mention, losing their sons and daughters to these corrupt wars. Your military is suffering from one of the worst recruitments in forever and can't fill in the ranks, so existing soldiers are having their time serving increased to match that.

Exactly what do you think it going to happen to your country and its people when you not only can't keep control in Iraq and in Afghanistan (Along with NATO allies) and then you take on Iran, who's had the last number of years to prepare for this sort of thing to occur? They haven't been fighting wars since 2001, and your country is going to not only be stretched way too thin to fight three fronts, but in doing so, you will lose whatever grounds you have gained in the other countries your fighting in and then the entire thing will unravel.

Not to mention China and Russia possibly stepping up to the plate and taking you guys on and the fact that you're not going to have many allies to back you up..... your country is about ready to destroy itself by it's own ignorance and action.

I hope you guys enjoy the ride, but if you take my country down with you in the process, considder me one more person against you. I will not side with a corrupt and heartless country that is hell bent in destroying itself and everyone around them.

People around here and elsewhere have been talking about a few nukes dropping on the US.... well maybe that might teach them.... then again, chances are they'll still think they were innocent, that it was an unprovoked attack and they'll just continue along their ways of tunnel vision and just keep adding feul to their own fire until they're completely exterminated.

Centuries down the road, we'll all be looking at our history discs and learning about this old acient United States of America and how their own self absorbed greatness destroyed them, much like other self proclaimed empires from times past.

The US makes me fk'n sick.
 

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Amazing, Global Research provides the full text of Resolution 362, uses the word "effectively" and everyone assumed the US is about to maneuver warships to block all naval activity.

Nice picture of warships btw. :roll:

Read the resolution. It's talking restricting Iran's foreign assets. The EU has already done it, the US is in the process.

Facts people, facts.

Global Research should be renamed Global Bull****.

Aren't they the same bunch of silly souls that claim Bush is setting himself up as President for Life?

To take anything that bunch prints seriously is to prove you have a screw loose.
 

MikeyDB

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Isn't it "To be expected"... that some people will have serious doubts about the actions and motives of the American government? If you choose I suppose you can ignore history completely and accept what that nations government tells you.... or you can be highly critical of accepting anything that comes out of the mouths of a government that has been exposed by factions within the nations itself as being guilty of lying to its people and misleading a nation into war. All the "debate" taking place here at CC is "entertaining" but in the final analysis....just as Canadians are being sent to die in a war that's going badly in Afghanistan....as economies reel from failed strategies and petroleum/fossil fuel strangleholds held by big-business and big-petroleum choke the life out of national economies around the world....as ever-more instances and examples of corruption misinformation and lies are brought to the attention of more people....at the end of the day..... Nothing said here or anywhere for that matter ill change the course of events. Americans are happy to proceed with their saber rattling and eager to have their war-machine rolling....and everyone else is a by-stander....an "enemy".

ITN and Jimmoyer have made this crystal clear.
 

jimmoyer

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Americans are happy to proceed with their saber rattling and eager to have their war-machine rolling....and everyone else is a by-stander....an "enemy".

ITN and Jimmoyer have made this crystal clear.
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Okay, let's obliterate the US like you wish.

Then what, MikeyDB ?

(By the way, you have certainly mis-characterized my opinion.)
 

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Sorry if I've mis-characterized your opinion, but it seems perfectly obvious that you're happy to see the situation that we have continue ..... Like most Americans, you don't seem prepared to acknowledge that a significant contribution to the chaos that the world is currently feeling...is the responsibility of the United States. Foreign policies that have made oppressive religious regimes wealthy beyond calculation....intrusion into foreign nations by global multinationals (backed by the threat of force) to secure America's "interests" in fulfilling its agenda.

Aren't there any Americans left who have access to or at least a vestigial memory of what it was to be a respected people? Is it accurate to suggest that Americans simply don't care and that this attitude of "We don't care" is effortlessly translated into "Anti-Americanism?

Sure let's get rid of the wealthy corporations preparing as we speak to drill for more petroleum in the few remaining environmental sanctuaries ....yes let's get rid of the American penchant for slave-labor as practiced by companies that hire illegal immigrants and operate sweat-shops in foreign nations....yes let's get rid of the myth of the "right" of every American to consume without any sense of consequence or appreciation for the destruction and mayhem this attitude engenders.

Throw out your made-useless "Constitution" and rejoin the rest of the world. America's had its time in the sun. It has used its time in the sun to proliferate antagonism and supply wealth and arms to whomever controlled something the money-changers in America wanted.

This "dollar-first" mentality has impacted not only the rest of the world but Americans themselves.

How much anger and dissention will be acceptable? Will it take a Timothy McVeigh to awaken Americans to the greed and malfeseance of the government you've created?
 

jimmoyer

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Everything you mention actually indicts all the western nations, especially your diatribes against wealth accumulation by the multi-national corporations.

The dollar/euro first mentality can be found the world over.

The disappearance of the US will not magically wipe away any of your complaints in that post.

Nor will the obliteration of the US even ameliorate any of your complaints.

You will find the object of your complaint is a hydra, to be found everywhere you look, and made more visible to you with the dissappearance of the States.

We are more similar than you realize.
And individually I share much of your dissatisfaction.