As
US Brags of
Cut In Iran
Oil Sales,
Reuters Omits
Sri Lanka, Of
VOA False
Claims
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 29 --
On the
afternoon of
Black Friday,
the US
White House
sent out an
announcement
from Secretary
of State John
Kerry bragging
about
enforcement of
sanctions on
Iran's sale of
crude
oil, even
during the
next six
months.
Kerry's
statement
said
"I
am
pleased to
announce that,
based on
additional
significant
reductions in
the volume of
their
purchases of
Iranian crude
oil,
China, India,
the Republic
of Korea,
Turkey, and
Taiwan have
again
qualified for
an exception
to sanctions
outlined in
Section 1245
of
the National
Defense
Authorization
Act (NDAA) for
Fiscal Year
2012. These
additional
reductions
were
determined
based on an
analysis of
these
economies’
purchasing
activity over
the previous
six months.
Additionally,
Malaysia,
South Africa,
Singapore, and
Sri Lanka have
also qualified
again for the
NDAA exception
because they
no longer
purchase crude
oil from
Iran."
Reuters,
which sent
five reporters
to the Geneva
talks but
missed the
William
Burns story
reported by AP
and AI
Monitor, turned
Kerry's Iran
statement into
a 142-word
article
which
mentioned by
name only
China,
India and
South Korea.
Was
this just
because these
were the first
three listed
by the State
Department?
What about
"Turkey and
Taiwan" --
sure to make
China (UN)
happy? What
about
Malaysia,
South Africa,
Singapore, and
Sri Lanka --
praised by the
US even as it
resists
accountability
for
its mass
atrocities in
2009 and since?
Reuters
doesn't
report that
part of Sri
Lanka's
record, click
here for that.
And
here.
And the US
State
Department's
own media,
Voice of
America,
not only was
scooped about
Bill Burns --
it bragged
inaccurately
about its
reporting of
the deal in
Geneva into
Iran, when
BBC had it
first
there too.
The
Iran nuclear
deal, and
claims of
continuing
punishment
including by
"de-SWIFT-ing"
Iran's banks,
constitute a
pinata for
these
media, easy
pickings. But
why be
incomplete and
inaccurate?
Watch
this site.
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