says it is ready to ban imports of raney and crude and will consider whether to do so by the end of themonth oil prices are already witnessing another spike in response to the latest heated exchange between iran and the u.s. over a key trade route in the persian gulf it comes on three run threatened to block the trade channel after new u.s. sanctions hit its exports the latest bills signed by president obama on monday saw iran's currency dropped below the risk a commentator on middle east affairs thinks the sanctions will soon backfire on the west. the oil prices now have increased this comes at a time will both europe and the you were witnessing a very very economic situation economic problems both in the u.s. and europe this latest of taken against iran will only of course that the president .

new leaders are looking to bring in and to iran's disputed nuclear program meanwhile the group of raney and students protested at the capital's airport where i.a.e.a. inspectors arrived for the highest level talks on the nuclear issue for more than three years the activists said iran was suffering under overwhelming western pressure and claimed their country had a right for peaceful nuclear energy. poor all rich and independent researcher and writer believes iran will eventually survive the oppression. sanctions or there's no downside about it so this is nothing new and they will. nish do that but i think iran has become well experienced in being able to fight off these forced and these covert actions and america and israel the western allies now europeans are only harming themselves iran i am confident iran will eventually sit by. well it seems all is fair when it comes to pre-election in favor of political wrangling in russia has spread to the internet taking a viral dimension as political activists try cutting edge tactics to win the hearts and minds of the people are choosing kather

that readers are looking to bring in a chance to iran's disputed nuclear program meanwhile a group of raney and students protested at the capital's airport where i am specter's arrived for the highest level talks on the nuclear issue for more than three years the activists said iran was suffering under overwhelming western pressure and claimed their country had a right for peaceful nuclear energy german political analyst christophe who are still told r.t. the measures adopted by the e.u. will harm the blog more than iran. this is not in favor of european interests what we're doing there with this stupid and senseless and also wrong embargo and what we clearly see is that this happens upon washington's wishes so we have a few countries greece in the forefront with twenty five percent of its overall oil imports in two thousand and ten coming from iran but it then we have italy with thirteen spain with ten percent in this regard we do have a lot of european mostly homemade problems now in addition to that we have problems with this oil embargo and as we see on the other hand i just spoke to so

measures simply won't work and thirteen percent say raney and people not the government will be most hurt by the sanctions against your most jumps the line of our teeth dot com. in other news the process of finding a republican candidate to contest the twenty twelve american presidential election officially got underway in the state of iowa the result however were anything but decisive career politician mitt romney leading his conservative counter part rick santorum by just eight votes just a few points behind one of the libertarian ron paul the only antiwar candidate in this year's lineup even hours before the vote many people were still undecided after a republican election run up marred by sex scandals month slinging and take for tat p.r. but despite all of that former congressional aide and diplomat told ruben believes it's wrong paul who stands out from the rest. of us foreign policy is very distinct from the other candidates in that he has a more isolationist viewpoint he wants the united states to retreat from international conflicts of international affairs in some areas that

says it's agreed in principle to ban imports of raney and crude sanctions could come in if into a fact by the end of january unless iran backs down on its alleged nuclear weapons program well to iran has responded to the sanctions with threats to block oil trade through the crucial strait of hormuz leading to a key of deadlock in the persian gulf american warships are also present in the region with a mission to prevent any hindrances of passage let's discuss this further we're now joined live by political analyst christophe is on the line with us live from berlin thanks for being with us iran seems to be feeling the pain of the sanctions already how serious an impact could they have if the oil embargo does in fact go through. well as far as the oil is concerned the impact is not very big germany is taking a one point five million barrels in a year that's next to nothing the european union has four percent of the. oil imports done by iran or from iran so that is not really a threat of course if they close the strait of hormuz that is. more dangerous not for germany though we just in th

exports and on financial assets and of course that also you cite saying the reason that killing both any raney and scientists myspace it was carried out by either the israel or the u.s. they saying that it's a growing threat against iran and they're here to show you that there is a very little public support in this country anyway for a war with abroad to see that the tools in the long run he is. financially in terms of human life. people feel. only raul is not just a. it's brutal as. big a very skeptical of being held in a cage. outside the u.s. embassy to protest against what these people are calling this great evil u.s. imperialism they say the government and the mainstream media in this country is. holding on to something pull the pin they'll be coming out on the streets repeatedly to protest against. our. reporting for us there and you are with are just ahead even the winter children won't stop global warming getting their people hot under the collar. would you be willing to blow dry your hair anymore yes that i'd be willing to do it would you be willing to dry your clothes on the line an

bomb attached to his car the stuff ahmadi rashaun reportedly supervised a department at natanz you raney him in richmond plant is a fourth scientist to be killed in iran since twenty ten his murderer coming almost exactly two years since the death of another physicist linked to the country's nuclear program to iran has blamed the murders on israel and the u.s. . at least four militants have been killed by a u.s. drone strike in pakistan the first attack of its kind in almost two months the missiles targeted a suspected insurgent compound on the border with afghanistan in a van der washington hold a drone operations in the region after accidentally killing twenty four pakistani soldiers but pakistan insisted the strike was deliberate and ordered american forces to vacate the airbase he used for launching attacks. iran's president has handed the ration of danio or ted in nicaragua as part of these latin american tour but what about it jobs trip is seen as an attempt to drum up support in the region after the u.s. imposed heavy sanctions on iran over its alleged tomic weapons program and ou

we had tim geithner going around the world trying to get countries not to import raney and oil i mean from trans perspective that's basically an act of war you're going to choke off their economy why should be why should these people be punished. when it's punished as between economic sanctions and military action one is to within the realm of the. peaceful measures the other something that could spark a war. just could spark a war and it's go to go back to go ahead. and fire too many make the mistake of implying the sanctions are just peaceful means they're not they are coersion they kill the innocent and for the latest round of sanctions i mean you go back to iraq half a million children died the future of iraq was destroyed and madeline albright turned around the city was worth it now you apply sanctions because you don't want to expend the military expenses you cannot iran to sit back and have no casualties and the war chest would definitely be depleted so sanctions are imposed hoping the iranian people would get so fed up they would overthrow their own regime i it hasn't worked f

exports and on financial assets and of course that also you cite saying the reason that killing any raney and scientists myspace it was carried out by either the israel or the u.s. they saying that it's a growing threat against iran and they're here to show you that there is very little public support in this country anyway for a war with abroad people have seen in this country tools in the long run he is known. for an extremely cold spring financially in terms of human law if. people feel those a war only raul is not justified it's brutalized by the side with. the big a very skeptical of being held to the case. outside the u.s. embassy to protest against what these people are calling this u.s. imperialism and they say that the government and the mainstream media in this country is building on something and they'll be coming out on the streets repeatedly to protest against. parties last month reporting for us there now the march of the multinationals in india is threatening to wipe out millions of smaller grocery stores while it's likely to mean cheaper food and jobs boost the pre-packed

in the rating agencies came raney will blow us on a beleaguered euro now the euro zone's fragile balance fund has been downgraded again and standard and poor's the firm which to motive nine e.u. nations and step france and austria their top statuses those downgrades meant the rescue fund lost one hundred eighty billion euros and aaa guarantees and that's knocked its own score down as a result better news for france is that the other major ratings firms are keeping france's position high with president sarkozy saying s. and p's solitary move won't affect its debt reduction policy which are to fears in about an hour's time is the currency not the credit scores who are the root of the problem. for the deceive others when you look at the reality of the past twenty years the european union has changed very little by the way if we remember back then we were still having referendums on such decisions so the mass treat referendum got through but in the second referendum on the lisbon treaty the french voted no in our land they voted no it was rejected by the people then forcibly voted in by m.p.

says it's agreed in principle to ban imports of raney and crude sanctions could come in if into a fact by the end of january unless iran backs down on its alleged nuclear weapons program well the iran has responded to the sanctions with threats to block oil trade through the crucial strait of hormuz leading to a continued deadlock in the persian gulf american warships are also present in the region with a mission to prevent any hindrances passage well let's discuss this further we're now joined live by political analyst christophe for itself is on the line with us live from berlin thanks for being with us iran seems to be feeling the pain of the sanctions already how serious an impact.

autocrats do not stand by their own people and of course these same dictators did not stand by the bluff raney people when they protested and we see from the developments in yemen for example a similar kind of deal that was negotiated it is not actually producing much on the ground there is talk of saleh now going to new york to get treatment and new york and america united states to get treatment for burns and he's talking as if he's going to come back and resume power after he's been healed so we don't see developments moving in a very positive direction in yemen and there's no international media focusing on there's no western sanctions focusing on that it's all the attention on syria and it's for a very political purposes and it's just really disappointing to see an organization like the arab league become a political tool that's just as bad as you know any of the peace efforts the so-called peace efforts that have been going on between israel palestine or any of the negotiations between iran these are not neutral efforts they're not just efforts they're very politicized and they're biased

in richmond if you raney and this result of a diplomatic process or as a result of sanctions so if you want to. eliminate a nuclear program completely the only way to do that is to invade the country overthrow the government in occupy the country put in a quisling regime that they will do we want to obviously nobody wants to that because the american people are tired of war and that you know in that direction like disaster so if you're not going to engage in occupying you know obviously the government then you know the only other alternative is really diplomacy where the u.s. would have to negotiate and where you get something. like you know iran agreeing to cigarettes international inspections in exchange for the us. agreeing maybe tacitly that iran can enrich uranium in that direction lies a real solution and let third girlfriend know about what seems to be a bargaining chip a few well for tehran and that's the straight start of. again this passageway that one fifth of the world's oil goes through apparently the u.s. has now sent a second navy carrier despite warnings from iran not t

see nations progress they would like to have control and a monopoly over everything in the greater raney a nation and follows the path of searching for new technologies and it wants to stand firmly on its feet by means of its own strengths and produce its own knowledge they disapprove of this progress and they don't want to see other nations develop themselves and the fact that they come over to such people's homes or attempt to murder an educated and broad minded university professor highlights the grave nature of their situation that the scientists assassination will only make the iranian people stronger and more focused on their goal. you know people understand that they've chosen the going to try the one of scientific progress the understory doesn't want to see this happen or that it would cause harm to have that physical annihilation of people in full daylight is a sign of the adversary's complete power that mr nisbet our nation that's the rest of the us as you noted r.t. has been comprehensively covering the situation in the arab countries as we have covered the wars in libya and s

chris raney coming from terry ball. any second for the nomination? okay. do we have any motion at this juncture to close nominations and essentially elect a slate? >> [inaudible] >> mr. white, dennis seconds that. let's call the question. all in favor of closing nomination and this juncture please signify by saying aye. all opposed, say nay. the ayes have it. at this juncture then, let us take up the question, which is to elect the following four members keg creek/silver creek to the potawatomi county central committee. mr. bryan dreyer. mr. craig, matt thiel and chris raney. signify by saying ayes. opposed, signify by saying nay. the ayes have it. congratulations the new central committee members. [applause] mr. dreyer, you now can record those names on the form a sometime this evening and we will turn those in. now, very important, the potawatomi county convention will meet saturday, march 10th, 2012, at a location yet to be announced. all caucus attendees who want to become delegates to the potawatomi county convention need to inform their present secre

e e sanny and for her nomination question -- chris raney any nomination. to close the slate?vor of closing nominations at this juncture, signify by saying hide. all opposed say nay. the ayes have it. let's take up the question which is to let the following four members of our precinct to the potawatomi county central committee. mr. dreyer, mr. cork,o and others. the ayes have it. congratulations to our new central committee members. [applause] and mr. dreyer, it is part of their illustrious duty to record those names on off form a at some point and we will turn as and. the potawatomi county convention will meet saturday march 10, 2012, at a location yet to be announced. all caucus attendees who want to become delegates to the potawatomi county convention, need to inform the precinct secretary and provide your name, physical address, phone number, and e-mail address. the county convention delegate count will not be limited. for those of you cannot ask and it did not win, a very important part of this evening is to attend the county convention. that moves forward to the state c