As expected from comments made on Thursday, President Trump and the Treasury Department have imposed a new round of sanctions against Iran for last weekend’s missile test, targeting 13 individuals and 12 companies accused of having involvement with the program.
The sanctions not only forbid those targeted people from having dealings with any American companies or with the American financial system, but also threaten to blacklist anybody else on the planet who has dealings with them. Administration officials said today’s sanctions are just the “opening shot” in a new campaign to go after Iran.
The Treasury Department was quick to argue that the new sanctions were fully consistent with the P5+1 nuclear deal, and had no impact on that pact. Since the ballistic missile tests are only banned to the extent they are capable of carrying a nuclear payload, it is debatable.
Iran insisted earlier in the week that the missile test was not of a missile designed with nuclear warheads in mind, and dismissed today’s moves as “baseless ranting” and a product of “Trump’s extremism.”
Congressional hawks were thrilled, however, with Rep. Ed Royce, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, saying it was a “long-overdue” move against Iran, and that the tests “are a direct threat to the United States.”
When you can say another country testing missiles on the other side of the world is a “direct threat to the United States” you can say anything since you can’t possibly have a conscience.
The allegation you quoted makes perfect sense, once you accept as a given that the US government is fully dedicated to permanently and violently meddling in the internal affairs of countless middle-eastern countries. With US forces doing these aggressive moves, they are under threat from Iran’s defensive weapons.
When I see the word “direct” I assume our soil. I agree with you completely though. We’re under threat in damn near every country on the planet since we have special forces in them.
Sanction are really the opposite of meddling in other countries affairs . It might be considered a little stupid to help a country that we think may have bad intentions against us .I guess they are always screaming death to America .