After weeks of international negotiations with Iran over their nuclear program produced no silver bullet, there is another bipartisan push in Congress to increase the already crushing economic sanctions on Iran.
House and Senate officials started crafting legislation this week that will intensify the pain and suffering, mostly for ordinary Iranian civilians. The new set of sanctions will make it even harder for Iranian businesses to buy insurance, obtain foreign financing and export goods.
While revenue for the Iranian regime is expected to be cut in half very soon, the population is feeling the pain too. Unemployment and inflation are rising uncontrollably and there are shortages of many foreign drugs, even though the punitive sanctions don’t directly target supplies such as medicines.
As effective as these measures may be in harming ordinary Iranians and cutting the revenue of the Iranian regime, they are completely ineffective in changing the behavior or make-up of the regime (the interventionists’ stated goal). Sanctions have a terrible track record for effectiveness throughout history and this case is no different.
So far, the US-led P5+1 group has made overly strict demands on Iran while continuing aggressive military and economic postures. Iran, on the other hand, has offered a measured proposal which the West balked at and rejected.
In principle, the talks and the Western aggression against Iran are illegitimate. There is a consensus in the US intelligence community that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons and has demonstrated no intention to do so.
Still, the sanctions and then negotiations were imposed on Iran. But the so-called diplomacy with Iran has been “predicated on intimidation, illegal threats of military action, unilateral ‘crippling’ sanctions, sabotage, and extrajudicial killings of Iran’s brightest minds,” writes Reza Nasri at PBS Frontline’s Tehran Bureau. These postures have spoiled the chance to resolve this issue promptly and respectfully.
US EU to the world.., you can not have a technology that would bring your country to the level with us, you can not have an economy that reaches to your independent, you can only produce what we say you can, you can not import or export in what is called "world market" unless is less, much less then we produce and export to your country, you can only barrow money from us to buy our military machinery unless you are Israel and we will give it to you for free, you can not become independent no matter what it is that you want to free yourself from, you can not discuss the matters no matter what these matters are unless our interests is the agenda to be discussed, we are governing you and your freedom not the other way around, get that idea being free, out of your head or face our mighty army or we send you Hillary Clinton to deal with you.
Aside from the fact that nuclear issue itself is a hoax, why would the US take it upon itself to impose sanctions on any country without the participation of the international community, save its 3 European stooges, and yet bray loudly that the action has international support?
Who in the world has given the US the authority to be meddlesome and interfere in everything that’s happening around the world? And why the citizenry, supposedly “free”, do not put a tight leash on this rabid dog they call their government?
But surely you jest, for the citizenry of our Empire are the voting majority 51% most wealthy who in their greed have all the politicians on a very short lease. For not a one in our paid actor Congress would dare give healthcare to our uneducated lower half, nor end sanctions on Iran until it stops this silly business of nationalizing all its oil fields which British Petroleum owned the oil rights to lock, stock and barrow.
Two Palestine wars — 3,333 year apart
Did you know that there is exactly 3,333 years between the two Semite invasions of Palestine, the BC 1405 genocide by Hebrews, and the 1948 genocide by Jews.
And yet oddly enough, the current "Palestinian" population is not only growing instead of having disappeared since 1948, but claims to be descended from the one that was genocided in 1405 BC.
Apparently the Hebrews/Jews aren't very good at this whole "genocide" thing.