President Obama has issued a new executive order today imposing further sanctions against the Iranian Central Bank, saying that the order was a response to “deceptive practices” by the bank in recent transactions.
The move orders US banks, including their foreign subsidiaries, to block and freeze all transactions coming out of Iran, and also gives them the power to seize any assets to which they are given access in relation to those transactions.
The official statement from the White House said the order was aimed at punishing Iran for “serious human rights abuses” and was targeted at keeping Iran from “development of petroleum resources.”
The move will make it even more difficult for those involved in the Iranian oil market to use US dollars. Some nations, including India and China, have been rumored to be in the early stages of negotiating gold-for-oil transactions with Iran, which would bypass the international banking system entirely.
"The move will make it even more difficult for those involved in the Iranian oil market to use US dollars. Some nations, including India and China, have been rumored to be in the early stages of negotiating gold-for-oil transactions with Iran, which would bypass the international banking system entirely."
……And this is the REAL reason why the Americans are harrasing Iran, not some non-existant nuclear threat, but the REAL threat it poses to the petrodollar.
That's what syria is about. Syria is another door to get into Iran. I don't care what the Iranian government is saying, these sanctions are cost them millions if not billions of dollars. These sanctions will bite and WILL be a threat to the national security of the Iranian people, and according to their constitution, only when their national security is threatened can they launch an act of war. Well, their national security is threatened big time! They think they can make up their losses by trading with turkey and south korea and china and japan, but the US trades with all of these countries which means by law the US can seize all the money made through these sanctions costing the Iranian government BILLIONS! This is exactly what the US did to Japan right before WW2.
They seized assets off of their banks balance sheets and launched emargos on their country. the difference is the Iranians see this as a game that they wont get sucked into but they will get sucked into it. They have to. The US is persistent and constantly annoying.
Here is the simple formula, Currency war, trade war, REAL war! (gerald celente)
"…the order was a response to “deceptive practices” by the bank in recent transactions."
My God, what was the central bank of Iran doing, surely not selling fraudulent mortgage packages to other banks?
The world in general is trying to arrange their affairs so that they NO LONGER HAVE TO USE UNITED STATES DOLLARS… and this so called sanction only moves that agenda further along and puts it on the fast track.
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Apparently the US and altogether too many of the brainwashed people who reside in it, are STILL convinced that they call the shots in the world.
Now that is a laughing matter at this point.. The BIGGEST debtor nation in the world, who still has bravado and bombs to spare, but no infrastructure left to provide for themselves, and is the world's biggest BEGGAR….. is sanctioning another country in this fashion.
As if the rest of the world will not simply overide the inconvenience and move forward, leaving the empire in the ditch………………. Hide and watch.
These "asset seizures" would be considered acts of war if another country did it to American banks. We'd be bombing them already.
The US has successfully blocked 2 major transactions between Iran and the Ukraine and Belarus for purchase of corn and wheat in the last week. I wonder, what possible use could wheat have in the alleged building of nuclear bombs?
its raining here, maybe Iran is behind it……….
Like Ron Paul says, sanctions are acts of war. We can obviously see who the anti-war party is. It's the Iranian government. If China had asassinated our nuclear scientists, we would have attacked china some way, if China had hired a terrorist group to blow up military installations on OUR soil, we would have attacked china the same day. So who really is the antiwar party? It's not obama, it's not any american official or media, it's the Iranian government and the russians and the chinese.
Obama is a puppet of AIPAC and I do not hold it against him to start a major war with Iran. He will do what he is told. And I beleive that they know something we don't. They are not telling us something. They have intelligence of Iran planning some sort of terrorist attack on US soil or on one of our assets and they are going to let it happen much like 9/11 to get the open door they need for. They are banking on that I'm sure. How could Iran NOT respond to these acts of war?
We oft hear the US Generals say that Cyber war is Real war, we oft hear the same Generals speak of Economic war as real war, what is the theft of assetts by another country by means of cyber theft other than straight out warfare.
whatthey are not telling you is that the US knows that IF there is a war in Iran the economies of Europe and the US will fail, they are on a knife edge right now.
Iran will not respond they want Israel or the US to actually attack, well not really want it, but will not attack first. They want HISTORY to show that Israel or the US attacked first. Every attack on Iran will be of at least a Dirty bomb status and in breach of the UN Charter. Bombing active Nuclear Plants is against IAEA and Geneva, WAR CRIMES, UNARGUEABLE WAR CRIMES.
If the US sanctions lead to the collapse of the petrodollar through the realization of enough countries that using the dollar just isn't worth having to suffer economic enslavement to Washington, then a better case of blow back could never occur.