Next Round of US Sanctions Aims at Destroying Iran’s Economy
Officials Hope to Cripple Economy Ahead of Talks
With the next round of negotiations with Iran set to begin in the next month or so, the Obama Administration is imposing yet more rounds of sanctions on the Iranian economy. Whereas others targeted specific segments, the new sanctions aim at damaging broad swathes of the economy with an eye towards collapsing it outright.
“The goal is to create a chilling effect on all nonhumanitarian commercial trade with Iran,” noted Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, adding that trying to target only parts of the Iranian economy was a “game of whack-a-mole that the United States could never win.”
The underlying justification for attacking Iran’s civilian economy with what borders on an outright embargo is the assumption that if the civilian economy is damaged sufficiently Iran will be more willing to negotiate. Yet since each new round of talks includes more onerous US demands, there is a constant game of trumping anything Iran might be willing to accept at any given time.
And so the economic warfare continues, leaving Iran’s government all the stronger as its civilian economy dies, and its population is forced to rely on government-run industries for what little economic production yet remains.
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mojo
January 7th, 2013 at 12:25 am
What is said is the act of war, a indirect act of war without shooting toward the nation. U.S has promised not to use its cope de Etta's tactics for regime change back in 80s sometimes, but it never promised not to use terrorist organizations, as they are using the iranian MeK against the Iranian people" or for that matter the wahabbis and others in Syria , or not supporting any terrorists groups or organizations creating such turmoil as in Syria, nor the U.S promised not to use inhuman economical sanctions and thereby terrorize a nation by sanctioning a nation to death.., either way U.S is at war with nations no matter the brutality or the injustice of the tactics.
Yonatan
January 7th, 2013 at 2:30 am
So this is the full Medieval style siege – aiming to reduce Iranians to eating grass, and dying in their thousands. Explicitly targeting civilians is a War Crime – oops, that is so last century.
peter vojta
January 7th, 2013 at 8:09 am
Nobel price winner Obama strickly!!! under Zionist instructions…..peter czech
rrrrrr
January 7th, 2013 at 8:37 am
Iran ought to give up supporting Hizzbollah then they would have no problem
Wassup Revs
January 7th, 2013 at 10:34 am
"Foundation for the Defense of Democracy" another pathetic 'Zionist' front to promote the exclusive interests of Israel's white, European colonists.
Yes, they 'defend democracy' by destroying sovereign nations and imposing their privately owned, debt based economy at the point of a gun.
Despite what people may believe all these sanction are 100% illegal, many of them are in fact acts of war.
Antiwar.com seems to do a lot of this water carrying for Zionist front outfits. It would be fine if they put some realist meat on these press release instead of just 'hanging it out there'. I mean, what is the point?
jinx77
January 7th, 2013 at 11:15 am
I dont think China is on board with any of this
PeaceRequiresAnarchy
January 7th, 2013 at 12:45 pm
Boo governments. Boooooo!
PeaceRequiresAnarchy
January 7th, 2013 at 12:48 pm
"Purpose: To enhance sanctions imposed with respect to Iran." http://www.scribd.com/doc/114936491/Iran-NDAA-as-…
Respect??
Brecht
January 7th, 2013 at 2:08 pm
Otherwise known as 'state terrorism'. The deliberate attacking of a civilian population which will certainly cause many deaths and illnesses, for the aim of making the other country submit. And remember, this has nothing to do with the nuclear program that everyone intelligent agrees ended nearly a decade ago. Thus, western civilization goes once again down the road of mass murder.
Claus Eric Hamle
January 7th, 2013 at 4:08 pm
The US/EU sanctions on Iran are illegal and unjustified. The CIA still says that Iran isn´t making nukes. Zero evidence as 16 US Intelligence Agencies say. But facts don´t matter or what ?
MoT
January 7th, 2013 at 7:43 pm
War by other means, eh? How is this not out and out warfare?
CanuckBC
January 8th, 2013 at 2:20 am
This is or should be deemed to be a war crime. It is a war by another means and now openly aiming at the Iran's civilians – to make their lives unbearable. It is abomination that a Jew – Mark Dubowitz is a "director" of so called Iran Energy Project. It is to me as if somebody called Ali Ahmadinejad the first cousin of current Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a director of Israel Energy project – the group of Iranians trying to "help" Jews to dismantle Israeli regime of Zionist nuts trying to pass as Israeli politicians.
Author writes "Yet since each new round of talks includes more onerous US demands" and we all know he is right. US government is not taking anything except of total surrender of Iranians. It is show of bad faith approach from US. It is hard to conduct any meaningful negotiations with this attitude.
janerg
January 8th, 2013 at 3:20 pm
Why should they give up supporting Hezbollah. Hezbollah's diplomatic wing is part of the Lebanese government, and their military wing defended their own country, Lebanon, against the Israeli agression in 1982, and almost certainly saved their country from an occupation like that of Palestine.
janerg
January 8th, 2013 at 3:24 pm
I agree with you 100%. This is criminal ! Iran has no nuclear weapons, and has absolutely no interest in having them. Also, Iran hasn't invaded or attacked another country for two or three hundred years (the same cannot be said of the US, far from it!). The Iranian people do not deserve to suffer in this way..
janerg
January 8th, 2013 at 3:33 pm
This is absolutely a war crime, as are all the drone attacks which kill hundreds of civilians in many countries. It is beyong me to even try to understand why the US is treating the Iranian people in this way. They have no nuclear arms, have no interest in having them, and would have to be crazy to want them. What good would a few bombs do them when up against the dozens in Israel, and the hudreds if not thousands at the disposal of the US, UK, France etc.? Is the US just trying to keep Israel, the Pentagon, the CIA, the arms industry, …who … happy? Do the PEOPLE in the US know what is being done to the Iranian PEOPLE in their name? Doesn't make sense ???
iran's economy
February 27th, 2013 at 3:25 am
At the same time as the IAEA, the internationally recognized nuclear watchdog of the UN, released its most recent critical report of Iran’s nuclear program (see my recent post), Farhad Pouladi from AFP decided to rewrite the news.
A full three quarters of his report were made up of a mere regurgitation of Saeed Jalili’s propaganda:
“Iran has fulfilled its NPT obligations as an active and committed member, therefore (it) should gain all of its rights,” Jalili said in an address to Iranian nuclear industry officials.
Read the full post about iran's economy