Threats to impose massive sanctions against Iran’s central bank to “punish” them for the Iranian government’s putative role in the dubious DC assassination plot have fallen through, with officials expressing concern about the possible damage such sanctions would do to international oil markets.
The sanctions would have barred any company doing business with Iran from accept to the US financial system, and other nations were expected to fiercely resist the move. Given the flimsy case in the plot these sanctions were coming from, it is also possible officials feared that some nations with interest in trading with Iran’s oil industry might have simply chosen them over the US.
Jason, I didn't quite understand the first sentence in the second paragraph. Is it that the sanctions would have barred any company "except" the US financial system, or what?
Thanks for all of the fine work you do. I can't possibly imagine how you can process – much less write – about every nook and cranny on the globe! Thanks.
Turning Teddy on his head, "Speak loudly and recognize you no longer have a big stick."
Wait you mean the rest of the world actually stood up to the US this time and resisted following our idiot government off a cliff?
You got it right! I'm certain that enough of these governments are sick and tired of the US being the intermediary for Israel. The best example of one of our attempts is telling the Pakis not to build a pipline to Iran to transport natural gas. That will go over like a lead balloon after all our insults against the Pakis and all those dead collateral damage Pakis from drone strikes.
Yea good point about that pipeline too! The US government is a darn good example of why there needs to be other pwers adn not a one world government.