Learn it! Speak it! Live it!
Bring Christmas to a child in need!
An 'urgency': Sensing threats to institutions of society, church leaders make declaration 
Click to Print
Include Comments
No July 4 invites to Iran
Lost in the shuffle of news Wednesday was the State Department’s rescinding of some party invitations to Iranian diplomats.
Before the Iranian elections, the Obama administration had extended invitations to Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at U.S. embassies – so-called “hot dog diplomacy.” The president said Tuesday that the offer still stood, but by Wednesday he dispensed with the niceties.
The White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said,
Given the events of the past many days, those invitations will no longer be extended
And he noted,
Not surprisingly, based on what we’ve seen going on in Tehran, nobody has RSVP-ed.
The announcement came as the State Department is making new overtures to Syria, sending a new ambassador to Damascus in hopes of loosening the country’s ties to Iran.
back to top8 Comments to “No July 4 invites to Iran”
That’ll teach ‘em.
Report comment to moderator
KBells,
I’m afraid they will not take the lesson. They’ll keep up the same old stuff.
From your remark, I gather you realize this was not a message to Tehran, but a political move because of domestic criticism.
Report comment to moderator
The Iranians would have been unfazed by it all. All the pops of fireworks would have been a tad reminiscent of firing squads back home,no?
Report comment to moderator
Kinda makes ya wonder what they do for fun, you know?
I heard, by the way, that Macy’s won’t be doing their fireworks display this year because it costs too much money to pay for the police.
Report comment to moderator
Not only that, North Korea is not invited to the party also.
Party poopers seldom wipe themselves properly.
Report comment to moderator
Wow! I thought that President Obama was going to be kinda wimpy, but, no, he’s really hitting ‘em hard.
And didn’t he say last week that the United States would not get involved at all?
Is he just making it up as he goes along?
Report comment to moderator
I’m not sure why I had my hopes up that this thread would not have devolved into utterly juvenile antics by this point. If no one had RSVP’d it’s completely disappointing that Gibbs had to formally rescind the invite to please talking-heads at home. The term “talking-heads” now formally applies to Republicans in congress!
On to the more relevant news. Good for Obama for planning to send an Ambassador to Syria again. Bush shouldn’t have done it in his last days of office. Remember we had an ambassador to Syria for the first half of the Bush presidency. We stopped sending one to protest the assassination of Lebanese PM in 2005. Except by 2008, the U.N. investiagtion hadn’t shown the strong connection between the Syrian government and the killing that the Bush Administration had asserted.
I think he should name Dick Lugar! He’s been in senate foreign relations forever. He has tons of experience with controlling the kinds of weapons we’re all afraid of in that region. And it would yank a popular Republican incumbent out of state Obama won at a time when the NRSC has absolutely zero resources to spend in Indiana!
Report comment to moderator
#7 MyNock
Sour puss.
Report comment to moderator
back to topJoin The Conversation
You need to be a registered user of WORLDonTheWeb.com to "join the conversation."
If you are not a member yet, what are you waiting for? Register / Login Now!