Speaking today at the Senate Banking Committee, US Treasury Department official Adam Szubin threatened to immediately reimpose sanctions on Iranian banks which get sanctions relief under the P5+1 nuclear deal if those banks are believed to have ties with “terrorists.”
Szubin, who the Obama Administration is seeking to make “sanctions czar,” said he would in particular being going after banks that have any ties with Hezbollah, and much more problematically, the Quds Force, which is part of the Iranian military.
In 2007, the US declared the Quds Force, which is effectively the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ special forces unit, as a “terrorist organization,” and has used that as justification for sanctions against myriad Iranian businesses. The Quds Force has advisers in both Iraq and Syria to advise those governments on fighting against ISIS.
The initial rationale for the declaration was that the Quds Force was supportive of Shi’ite militias who the US was fighting during the US occupation of Iraq. As we have seen in the past, however, once on the list getting off requires a herculean effort, or at least an intense lobbying campaign.
Using that as a pretext to keep sanctions on a broad segment of the Iranian banking community could be risky for the US, as it would undercut administration claims that they are acting in good faith in implementing the nuclear deal’s sanctions relief, and risks a growing split between US-approved sanctions and those seen as legitimate by the international community.
Anything done that will further the growing isolation of US elites can't be all bad.
Iran is working through surrender terms, and although they are not unconditional, they are not exactly like old “Contractual Treatys” once used between defeated and victorious.
Media trys to keep focus on nukes but nukes are only a minor part of the issue, unless some forget US and its Canadian Brit allies was fn over Iran since 1950’s, long before they had a nuclear program.
Releasing of funds has no fn bearing on what is done at the energy facilities Iran has more than enough capital to carry that on, no it has more to do with who will control the nuke process the UN And its corporate Nuclear Cartels won that right, and also what routes energy pipelines will take and too keep its oil un-nationalized and to not form or join any oil borsch.
Iran has a “Free Port Zone” ( where Haliburton and Southern Mafias oil interest were illegally importing and exporting energy related goods); that has had Euro and Asian nations chomping at the bit to join; all that has been placed on hold due to Euro and US banking being weaponized against any nation trying to work
its industries independent of Euro/ US financial sectors.
The CZAR is only rightly pointing out that the religious backers of Irans power structure can keep its poulations in dark about their failures in leadrship but the US will target those religious backers and their military arm individually from its other interpersonal or inter nation populace bodies.
To destroy Irans ability to govern itself has cost US ten million a year to three terrorist groups and another 15 million to soft targets in Iran, its youths and minor buisness groups .
This would lead to confrontations with more than just Iran.
Our friends in the negotiations like Britain and France and Germany and others relying on that made a deal, and they will expect us to live up to it.
Less friendly China and Russia will defy us on that gleefully.
We won't be leading the world on these sanctions, we would be confronting the world. Stupid.
Szubin and his fellow Zionists in Treasury work for the Government of Israel.
David Cohen was in that group for a long time. Anyone know what happened to him?
HOW MANY HAVE READ ONE FN WORD OF THAT AGREEMENT.
Portions are still being parsed by members of the IAEA outside of UN offices.
Who and who through will Iran dell and nuy enriched uranium above what they can possibly make now.
France are asd livkers and are having s hard yime killingAfricans in theit reward gor killing Libyans, and get hopes up of completing french ELF dream of trans Sahara pipeline.
Us and B rits drove France and Belgium out of Central Africa and so France will always be dependent upon them for its dreams.
France is a basket case not a whole hell of a lot above Greece and now has to rely upon military poeer of Their own under US/Brit payronage to get their share of African Uranium and rare earth minerals.
Only reasonFrance is in negotiations is to gorce IRAN to buy their Enruched MOX fuel rids for their powerplants.
France Brits Canada and one plant now defunct, are yhe ones who dold Japan the mox fuel that blew up and is till fissoning 4+years.later.
The power sharing is not by governments but more by financial interest and those interest care not who lives or dies they want the goods and the profits and F any such thingvas National recognition.