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EU Wimps Out on Oil Sanctions to Halt Iran’s Nuclear Drive: View
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Who would have thought a week in which protesters rampaged through the U.K. Embassy in Tehran would end with Europe going soft on the Iranian regime? Yet that’s exactly what happened.
At a meeting Dec. 1 in Brussels, European Union foreign ministers on measures against some 180 individuals and companies in reaction to Iran’s continued support for terrorism and an International Atomic Energy Agency report finding that Iran had conducted secret activities “specific to nuclear weapons.” This was expected and deserves a positive response (as do new penalties the ministers announced against Syria).