[FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great

[Hhakimi]

Mr. Amirahmadi -
You are a well known, repeated traitor. You will be dealt with in time & in Proper way.

Regards,
H. Hakimi


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U.S. Renews Easing of Some Iran Sanctions
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040421/ts_nm/iran_usa_dc_1


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By Carol Giacomo, Diplomatic Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration has extended a temporary suspension of some U.S. sanctions on Iran that were eased to speed relief supplies after a devastating earthquake last December.




The president of the American Iranian Council, Hooshang Amirahmadi, on Tuesday hailed the move as "another (U.S.) gesture of goodwill to Iran" but a State Department official dismissed the decision as "matter of fact, not political."

The decision to renew the suspension, which had been due to expire last month, became public on Tuesday, as the United States faces an increasingly chaotic conflict in Iraq (news - web sites) and is looking to neighboring countries, like Iran, to help calm the situation.

An official Iranian delegation traveled to Iraq last week to try to defuse a standoff between radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and U.S. troops in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf.

Iran and the United States have not had formal diplomatic relations since the Iranian revolution when radical students held 52 American hostages for 444 days from 1979-1981.

President Bush (news - web sites), who has branded Iran part of an "axis of evil" with Iraq and North Korea (news - web sites), eased some sanctions last Dec. 31 so U.S. citizens and nonprofit groups could donate money directly to nongovernmental organizations working in Iran on reconstruction and relief efforts after an earthquake killed 26,000 people in Bam.

Under the initial 90-day measure, the administration also made it easier for relief groups to bring donated equipment such as satellite telephones and computers into Iran.

In a formal renewal letter, the U.S. Treasury Department (news - web sites)'s Office of Foreign Assets Control said the temporary sanctions easing would be extended for another 90 days, effective March 25.

"It's certainly a gesture (to Iran). The United States didn't have to do it. The emergency in Iran is over," Amirahmadi, a professor and director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, told Reuters.

A State Department official, speaking anonymously, said he did not believe the issue received the kind of high-level attention that normally would occur if the administration was planning to send Iran a meaningful diplomatic signal.

"There's still a need in Iran for stuff to deal with the situation. The humanitarian crisis is still persisting," the official said.

In an interview in January, former national security adviser Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft predicted Bush would extend his decision to ease the sanctions and it would be desirable.

Scowcroft, who advised Bush's father and advocates dialogue with the Islamic state, said he believes the United States and Iran are "moving toward some kind of exchange, but at a glacial rate and neither side is enthusiastic about it."

Amirahmadi said, "The government (in Tehran) wants to work out its problems with the United States."

[Equality]

yup I completely agree, the guy is a treacherous rodent.

[freedom fighter]

the move to get money over there is a good one but it is far from over the oppressive governmen tis not gone the people are not free, far from it. Simply sending money and saying the problem is thus over is a joke action must be taken in addition to the money being sent to rebuild and aide, action! Freedom.
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