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Ahead of this week's U.N. Security Council deadline for Iran to abandon its nuclear activities and an expected report from nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, U.S. officials have been mapping a plan to hit the defiant regime. But the attacks will be financial, not military. The U.S. and its European allies will ask the council next month for a resolution that would pave the way for political and economic sanctions. If, as expected, Russia and China threaten a veto or stall, the U.S. intends to work outside the U.N. to isolate Tehran "diplomatically and economically," Under Secretary of State Nicholas...
Another possible move is a disinvestment campaign similar to that used against apartheid-era South Africa. A study by the Conflict Securities Advisory Group, a Washington consultant hired by the State Department, found that 124 publicly traded European companies have ties to Iran and that European banks are financing significant energy and telecom projects there. A disinvestment campaign could be tough to pull off. But U.S. officials hope that while conscience may not get those firms to quit Iran, the threat of bad p.r. might...
...unhcr last week reported that refugee numbers - around 9 million people worldwide - are the smallest in 25 years. But many European governments have watched Australia's offshore processing experiment "with considerable interest," says Christopher McDowell, director of the London-based Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees. When the Pacific Solution was first unveiled, McDowell says, European officials were "clamoring to meet" then Immigration Minister Ruddock "to glean as much as they could about the proposals...
...really upset at the Slingbox.'' He hasn't had much time for disappointment. Krikorian had flown to Cannes to announce that Sling Media will soon start selling Slingbox in Europe and Asia; he told Time that his product will hit high-street retailers in Britain and other European and Asian countries in May (even if his company won't yet reveal prices or which chains will carry it). According to Krikorian, the company has sold over 100,000 Slingboxes in the U.S. since introducing it there less than a year ago, with the price at around $200. While those numbers...
...however, China and Russia signal vetoes, which is by no means out of the question, the Bush administration and its European allies will likely move to Plan B. For the moment, that means trying to assemble a so-called coalition of the willing, in which nations will be asked to chill political and trade relations with Iran in order to deepen the regime?s isolation...