The U.S. delegation to Tuesday and Wednesday’s talks in Geneva between P5+1 and Iran will include the government's leading sanctions experts, a hint that Washington may be giving greater thought to how it might ease sanctions on Tehran, Reuters reported today.
Adam Szubin, the director of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) will join the delegation led by Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman. Szubin has led OFAC since 2006.
The American team also includes James Timbie, senior adviser to the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security; Puneet Talwar, senior director for Iran, Iraq and the Gulf States on the White House National Security Staff; and Richard Nephew, principal deputy coordinator for sanctions policy at the State Department, a US official said. (Reuters, 13 October)
File photo: Adam Szubin, the director of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control – OFAC. (cambio.com)
File photo: Adam Szubin, the director of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control – OFAC. (cambio.com)
13 comments:
this thu the US must declare the state of the bankruptcy
so the outgoing situation is good for iran
Is there some unwritten rule that everyone involved in U.S government foreign policy making has to come from a conservative Jewish background?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramaz_School
Great, AIPAC rubs the lamp and genie Szubin emerges to take a seat in the talk as a vetoing member! From now on, the group should be referred to as P5+2.
The Iranians have insisted that sanctions should be one of the top issues in the talks. Now why do you object to the inclusion in the talks of a person who is an expert in the government on that field, something I am sure the Iranian delegation prefers immensely. Is the man’s religion a non-starter for you?
Obviously he would need to be there because he's an expert on which sanctions Obama has the power to remove without Congress.
80% of sanctions against Iran are impossible to remove, since they have become laws. Like the Iraqi sanctions or Cuban sanctions, etc etc..
Its the question of implementing them or not, even if supposedly set out , they can be then implemented on a twitch upon the thread......should Iran dance out of line
Its a waste of time on the long run, but if it delays the war then, I say go for it.
Besides.. Obama cant even move the houses not to cut itself, how can you expect to have them remove sanctions on Iran.
Iran's future is in the East and not West.
Azari by fortune and Iranian by Grace of God
Dariush London
You just worry about living in good old London town.
what sort of dishonest idiots says that sanctions are " are impossible to remove, since they have become laws."
laws are rescinded often, and require no more that a majority of the legislature voting to do so.
not much different from the fact that a treaty with Iran requires a majority of the upper house of the legislature's endorsement to become US law.
don't make flat statements when they don't know what the hell you're talking about, Dari boy.
"require no more that a majority of the legislature voting to do so" now just you try getting that "majority"
What exactly is this " treaty with Iran" you`re talking about,there isnt any treaty on the table,the talks are about practical limits on irans nuclear program in return for sanctions relief,and as people like Dariush have noted how difficult removing some of these us sanctions will be because of the way they have been written into law
Nader UskowiOctober 13, 2013 at 4:50 PM
Its less his religion and more his politics that`s the worry,whose interests is he representing,the us governments or aipac?
"You just worry about living in good old London town."
Exactly. Isn't it odd that we NEVER get someone commenting who actually lives in Iran?!
perhaps you're not rubbing yourself the right way and should be referred to as reader - 2.
Szubin works for the US government and not for AIPAC, foolish fellow.
AnonymousOctober 14, 2013 at 11:46 PM
"Szubin works for the US government and not for AIPAC"
That is really one of the most naive comments I`ve read,do you realise how much political influence aipac wields
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