Change Of Pace: IRANIAN Official Forced To Turn Back From Visiting Europe

Daled Amos
01 December '10

I remember back in June reading in the LA Times that protesters had blocked the unloading of Israeli cargo ship in Oakland. As it turned out, they had blocked a Chinese ship by mistake, and the ones behind the whole thing was a pro-Palestinian group, not the dockworkers themselves.

Still, based on that story, I did not pay close attention to the story from Holland that Dutch gas companies refused to fuel the Iranian Foreign Minister's plane--I misread the headline as referring to Israel.

But in fact, this story is all about Iran:

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki dropped his planned visit to the Netherlands on Tuesday because US sanctions meant his Iran Air plane might be refused fuel.

“Mr. Mottaki canceled his visit because the government of the Netherlands could not guarantee that his plane would be refueled by private fuel firms at Schiphol airport, which follow US sanctions,” Ward Bezemer, a spokesman for the Dutch Foreign Ministry, wrote The Jerusalem Post.

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