Green Options » Senate Resolution 580 http://greenoptions.com/tag/senate-resolution-580 Posts tagged 'Senate Resolution 580' Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:28:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en A US Blockade of Iran Would Cause an Energy Crisis http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/13/a-us-blockade-of-iran-would-cause-an-energy-crisis/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/13/a-us-blockade-of-iran-would-cause-an-energy-crisis/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:28:15 +0000 Jennifer Lance http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/08/13/a-us-blockade-of-iran-would-cause-an-energy-crisis/ Strait of HormuzAs Russia is focused on Georgia, and China is focused on the Olympics (two countries that might oppose further sanctions against Iran), the US is amassing its largest naval buildup in the Persian/Arabian Gulf since the 1991 Gulf War.  This deployment comes on the heels of both House and Senate resolutions calling on the President to take action against Iran, which could only be accomplished through a naval blockade, an act of war under international law.  Such a blockade in the Strait of Hormuz would cause oil prices to skyrocket and cause an energy crisis greater than we are experiencing currently.

House Resolution 362:

(3)demands that the President initiate an international effort to immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political, and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear enrichment activities by, inter alia, prohibiting the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran; and prohibiting the international movement of all Iranian officials not involved in negotiating the suspension of Iran’s nuclear program;

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