via: FT.com - France calls for Iran investment boycott

France calls for Iran investment boycott
By Peggy Hollinger and Pan Kwan Yuk in Paris
Published: September 16 2007 23:40

The French government has asked the country’s biggest companies not to invest in Iran, as the tension mounts over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions ahead of a meeting this week of the world’s big powers. Bernard Kouchner, France’s foreign minister, on Sunday indicated that France’s newly elected government had joined forces with Washington to solicit a sort of unofficial boycott of Iranian projects. “We have asked a certain number of our big companies not to respond to Iranian tenders. I think this has been heard and we are not the only ones to have done so,” he said in a televised interview."

I wonder if France's boycott will work any better than the United State's efforts? One must wonder if the message is being conveyed in a straightforward or even possibly uniform manner. Unfortunately, only time will tell, as in the example of Weatherford. I still do not think that story has been fully told.