Hot on the heels of the US “food for nukes” deal with North Korea, officials in the Israeli government are calling for mass starvation to be imposed on Iran as a way of forcing regime change and abandonment of the nation’s civilian nuclear program.
“Suffocating sanctions could lead to a grave economic situation in Iran and to a shortage of food,” one of the officials claimed. Though thanks to inflation the price of food is rising and causing hardships for average Iranians, it isn’t clear how officials propose to force a famine on the nation.
Unlike North Korea, with its backwards, state-run agricultural industry, Iran is actually a net food exporter, and while more sanctions could make the industry less efficient and perhaps curb exports, it would not make the food Iran does grow disappear into thin air.
The comments suggest that Israel is growing impatient with the ongoing sanctions against Iran, and is looking for something that will be a “game changer” that finally forces regime change or at least spawns an international objection that can be used as an excuse for a unilateral attack. The idea that a suddenly starving populace is going to overthrow its government on behalf of those that are starving them, however, seems to fly in the face of the history of sanctions.
Turn Iran into a sort of Gaza strip. They do what they're used to.
The comments don't suggest that they're growing impatient; they suggest that these officials are genocidal maniacs.
Perhaps this is the Russian-immigrant influence showing up. What Stalin did to the Kulaks in Ukraine, they now propose to do to Iran.
Many of the new Russian immigrants are the children and grandchildren of chekists and of members of the KGB. They are the descendants of Stalin's henchmen. Their ancestors' cruelty shows through.
It may well be argued that due to Stalin's purges the proportion of Jewish chekists/members of KGB among the total number was greatly reduced and kept decreasing ever after.
iran imports rice and wheat, its major staples. the prices for bread and rice are skyrocketing and hurting the majority of irans population. Meat is already more expensive than it is here in the states.
So, Iran is indeed suffering. I am not sure what all this has to do with a supposed nuke program? How Does starving 75 million innocent people, the majority of which are children (50% of irans population is under age 28!!) somehow get the government to give up its drive to generate electricity?
Like I have said on this blog before, the choices facing iranians are to a) starve now or b) sit in darkness and starve in 5 years….
According to history the third Reich or german fascism, during Hitler rule almost 6 million Jews were starved to death or killed, this is a matter which flip flopt with and argued about its truth's etc. the very same people whom call the land of Palestine Israel now, were given small portion in north of Palestine by UN to live in peace with jews and Palestinians people, here UN in his most humanitarian mission helped Jews to have a place to live after 2nd WW, European jews being homeless were rescued by this mission and accepted the idea and moved to Palestine, after 60 years and almost daily war the Palestinians, the lands is no longer belongs to Palestinians and they have almost to non social rights, yet Israel asking for Iranian people to be starved as if they were jews living under the Third Reich rule of fascism, looking at entire picture, in reality there is no different in what happened in 1940s and what is demanded by the Israelis politicians asking US and EU to do the same dirty job that Hitler was doing. Now think for a moment, what would happen if Israel had the US militarism under its control or the US president and his or her cabinet was one of these politicians demanding congress to vote on starving Iranians to death, or for that matter any other kind of religious but Judaism in this world….?
''demanding congress''.
So what do you think they are demanding now??????
and leave religion out of it,Judaism is religion..Zionism is NOT.
The same is happening in Gaza where the poplation is denied the basic necessities of life. Most effected by malnutrition of course are children. Zionist 'wars' are fought against civilian populations.
And the Zionists wonder why people hate them so much.
After all, they Are the Chosen ones…
Amazing how narcissim can blind one to their own faults. But, recognizing the danger of hubris is part of the Greek, (Western), tradition, not part of the Judaic tradition.(God bless the Greeks.)
Doesn't make me jealous………..
Every day this avil regime "Zionist Israel" shows the whole world how unhuman this "cancer of the ME" is. Can anybody imagine if people / or some leaders!!!/ of the world called for total destruction of Zionist Jews? What outrage would that coursed? No.only arogant, rasist regime of Palestine province called Israel can suprise the Humanity with new terror tactics and crimes against humanity. Let us watch what kind of statement will bring tomorow. Its sick, but needed – daily grows the number of people with "special love" for "self"chosen race.
Starvation could take time; didn´t the Zionists want something to happen quickly? Besides, wouldn´t this action create another Holocaust? Who was it that said; “Never again!”
It's not a Holocaust unless it happens to them!
Israel doing to Iran what it wants would make the holocaust look like a garden party.
Yes,Israel is doing that in Gaza where the food accepted to pass is calculated to be exactly at the limits above starvation.And the siege of Gaza is going on and jurists from UN gave even their specialists opinion that is legal.The "free world"gave in fact its approval even for harsher means:war.
Great idea, and once they have been starved enough, they can put the Iranian population onto trains and send them all to….
There is no real ideological difference between Zionism, and Nazism. Both view anyone from a different religious background, or of a different race as lessor, and never an equal. There will be no tears if the Zionist regime is destroyed..none. They are a miserable terrorist entity that deserves to be tried in the Hague
Nice, real nice, this just shows what pigs the Israelis really are.
Why don't you post my comments ? is it because I called the Zoinists pigs.
Isn't it hard NOT being anti-semite, at least by todays definition of anti-semite?
I'm afraid the iranians are playing this for the purpose of getting Israel to go nuts and carry out an unprovoked strike. Will they then retaliate? Not if the plan works: the street goes insane across the whole region, Syria and Pakistan both collapse, Afghanistan turns into riot central and the European alliance has no choice but to drop the sanctions. Worth taking a few bunker busters.
The Iranians have a lot of nerve just sitting there, trying to mind their own business…wearing their innocence on their sleeves. I can see why the Jewish supremacists are so provoked.
I would like to think that comments like this from unnamed Israeli "officials" (why do I think that Avi Lieberman's fingers are all over this?) would be enough to cross the line for the US to tolerate. As some of the comments above point out, this is so reminiscent of the travails the Jews went thru in the 1940's and what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians now. One would think that their only purpose is to inflict revenge on the rest of the world – but especially on those they fear.
The US, if it still claims to have moral standing in the world, has to finally call the Israelis out. But, I know they won't.
Starving civilians. I seem to recall that is what the Nazis did to the Warsaw ghetto. Evil then, evil now.
its not evil if we do it to brown people. It was not evil in iraq or nicaragua or cuba or angola or vietnam or north korea or , well, you get the point
Another of my comments evaporates. Do you people believe in the first ammendment?
Yo, wars,
An ***automated***system is in place to prevent the worst of the foul-mouthed trolls from overwhelming the discussion here. So take a deep breath and figure out the rules, and if need be, a work around. As an example if you write the word sh*t (with an "i") it will appear as "****". So there's one rule and one workaround. Run some tests to learn the rules, and your "moderator/censorship" problems will become manageable.
I understand that. I didn't use any foul mouthed words so I couldn't understand the 3 hour hold up on a one sentence post.
This morning's BBC report that Iranians are paying $0.65 us /litre for milk, $2.00/kg for 1st quality rice and $1.00 kg for apples might upset the honikers who think that 3 cabbage and 500 gallons of water will make a good 'sanction soup'.
Without even thinking about what Iranians are paying for their imported gasoline, they could certainly do a lot worse paying for this stuff in most 'first world' supermarkets.
Sorry. I don’t understand why my comments appear 3 hours after I submit them.
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So much for all that "light-unto-the-nations" dreck Israel is always boasting about.
if racism and genocide are the "light", then i prefer to live in darkness
If terrorism is the killing of innocent civilians in order to exact political change, then this certainly qualifies! Why aren't the U.S./Israel/E.U. governments referred to as terrorists in the media?
TERROR: A physical or psychological act, violent in nature, to gain submission. You tell me? Why aren't the powers that be in America called terrorist, along with the Zionists and Slimeys. The EU is so entangled financially with America that all America has to say, jump. Their response, how high.
Because the western news media are on the whole hijacked, controled and dominated by international Zionism and AIPAC.
Hands Off Iran
Why not? That's exactly what they've been doing in Gaza and look at how well that's working out for Israel. And by the time they finally invade Iran, hopefully, the starving Iranians will eat them alive.
Nazism and zionism are the same evil.
Israel is such an ugly country and its people have turned into a bunch of genocidial maniacs.
Israeli Nazis.
That is the Rothschild/Nazi alliance showing through.
I am a far right wing Zionist as my picture will elucidate and I find this absolutely reprehensible.
Altho it is an "unnamed source", so maybe we shouldnt be so quick to judge…