Embracing Iran: The Swiss Cheese Sanctions Policy
The non-EU member Switzerland became the first Western country to lift sanctions...
Micheline Calmy-Rey
Iran and Hamas’ Swiss Enablers
I remember roughly two years ago in September of 2010 when Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and I uncovered the Swiss heavy ear...
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Switzerland Siding with Iran?
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter went to Damascus last week to meet with Hamas' Khaled Meshaal, a man accused of terrorism by the United States, Israel and the European Union. Carter'...
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Has Anyone Told Ambassador Rice There’s a Crisis In Libya?
When President Obama made Susan Rice his ambassador to the United Nations, in 2009, he thought the job was so vital that he gave her cabinet rank. Now, here we are, with the Arab world in tumult,...
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Swiss Adopt EU Sanctions on Teheran
BERLIN – Switzerland will fall into line with European Union sanctions targeting Iran's energy, nuclear proliferation and weapons sectors, its government said last week. "Bundesrat gives u...
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Protests Against Swiss Failure to Uphold Iran Sanctions
The Stop the Bomb coalition held demonstrations in front of several Swiss embassies in Europe on Monday, to protest Bern's support for the Iranian government and (EGL) Elektrizitätsgese...
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What’s Rankling the Swiss Foreign Ministry?
Switzerland's Social Democratic controlled Foreign Ministry is upset with THE WEEKLY STANDARD's criticism of how its foreign policies serve as a crutch for Iran's drive to obtain nuclear weapons an...
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Is German Chancellor Angela Merkel Pro-Israel and Pro-American?
German chancellor Angela Merkel's speech last week to the Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) in Manhattan, when compared with her administration's Iran policies, shows the gap between pro-Israel...
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Iran’s European Helpers
The European Union in July imposed unprecedented sanctions against Iran's energy and financial sectors. But despite the crackdown, some European companies continue to sign up for business de...
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Why Is Switzerland Backing Ahmadinejad’s Iran?
Berlin - The European Union and the U.S. have passed tough sanctions targeting Iran...
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Report: Swiss FM Under Fire for Blocking Iran Sanctions
BERLIN - Swiss government officials in the Economics Department (Seco) have called for tougher sanctions against Iran and criticized Social Democratic Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey for bl...
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Swiss Energy Giant EGL Pursues Gas Deal with Iran
BERLIN – The Swiss energy group EGL's €18 billion gas contract with the National Iranian Gas Export Company faced criticism at a US congressional hearing in late July because of p...
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Switzerland Siding with Iran?
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter went to Damascus last week to meet with Hamas' Khaled Meshaal, a man accused of terrorism by the United States, Israel and the European Union. Carter's initi...