Middle East Focus: Shirin Ebadi on Smart Sanctions and Stupid War…………….

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Shirin Ebadi on Smart Sanctions and Stupid War…………….

“Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi has warned against imposing sanctions on her country, saying it would harm the population not the government. Speaking at the Asia Society in New York she said international sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme would backfire. But she pleaded with western companies not to do business with Iran, the news agency AFP reported. Companies trading with Iran should be censured, not Iran's people, she said. "We oppose military attack on Iran or economic sanctions because that's to the detriment of the people," she said…… Ms Ebadi repeated allegations she made last month that a number of electronics and telecommunications companies sold equipment used to monitor text messages and mobile phones to the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. She called on governments to "sanction such corporations". Ms Ebadi is a human rights lawyer and is the first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize…….”

The neocons (US neocons in the various thinkless tanks) will be going after he scalp.
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