China to israel: Iran sanctions a NO GO
China Tuesday rejected Israel's call for tougher sanctions against Iran.
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni met with Premier Wen Jiabao to ask China to support new sanctions against Iran. But Wen rejected the idea.
"We believe there is a need to raise the sanctions to stop Iran (from getting nuclear weapons)," she said at a press conference Tuesday.
Her meeting with Premier Wen lasted 30 minutes longer than scheduled.
Speaking to students at a university in Beijing on Monday, Livni had said that China could "play a crucial role" in defusing the Iranian nuclear issue.
At a press conference Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said China doesn't support imposing sanctions at random in international relations.
"China has always believed that unbridled use of sanctions should be discouraged in dealing with international issues. We believe a peaceful resolution to the Iran nuclear issue through diplomacy to be the best option that would serve the common interests of the international community best," Liu said.
In other words, 'take a hike, Tzipi!
See you at the next round of "talks."
Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhao Xing tells Tzipi Livni
"Get the fuck outa here with that sanctions shit"
..soon to be the MyTh!
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said a few months ago in a series of closed discussions that in her opinion that Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an existential threat to Israel, Haaretz magazine reveals in an article on Livni to be published Friday.
Livni also criticized the exaggerated use that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is making of the issue of the Iranian bomb, claiming that he is attempting to rally the public around him by playing on its most basic fears. Last week, former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy said similar things about Iran.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/916758.html
Ephraim Halevy:
They know the "Iranian bomb" is no threat to Israel, because there isn't one, it's pure fear-mongering. The zionists just want Iran eliminated anyway, for the sake of regional supremacy and to further isolate Hizbullah and the Palestinians.
..just bomb into the stone age anyone who doesn't conform to your will! This type of thinking has the potential to get out of hand fast!!