The end of business on Friday marked the end of the six month period between the US withdrawing from the P5+1 nuclear deal and the withdrawal being finalized. As of Monday, the US will be reimposing all sanctions against Iran that they’d previously been required by treaty to ease.
The US intention is to put all international sanctions back exactly as they were before the nuclear deal was signed. Since Iran is still party to the deal, as is most of the rest of the world, many nations do not intend to comply with US demands.
Still, Iran’s economy has been struggling already, with the anticipation of sanctions gravely damaging the currency. This has many ordinary Iranians fearing that their economic struggles are about to get worse, while Iran’s government, as throughout the sanctions, is in a better position to weather the storm.
That’s roughly the stance Iran’s Foreign Ministry is taking. On Friday they issued a statement saying they have “no concerns” and are confident that they’ll be able to manage their economic affairs irrespective of the US sanctions.
A word on sanctions….interesting that a president can unilaterally declare sanctions. The sanctions on Iran today, are part of the same sanctions imposed in 1979 following the deposing of the Shah. The nasty sanctions on Iraq so unilaterally attributed to Bill Clinton, were imposed by Bush 1. I suppose if the Japanese don’t behave themselves, a president could reinstate sanctions from 1939. Sanctions are demonstrably a prelude to war, and, if they cause death, they are war. I don’t recall the American people being consulted about war with Iran, or the Congress, this authoritarian assault on liberty has got to stop.
Bush 1 did impose the sanctions but Clinton continued them. Otherwise we never would have that statement from the wicked Albright saying the sanctions that killed mostly women and children were “worth it”.
Of course, my point is not to excuse Clinton at all. Yet, from writings and comments, one would think that Clinton invented them himself. In the same way, why are these sanctions imposed by trump, so easy to reactivate with no oversight? These sanctions go back to the beginning of what Andrew Bacevich names the War for the Greater Middle East, the Carter administration for god’s sake. Scott Ritter covered the legal abuse of sanctions quite well in the Clinton administration, those abuses were the foundation of the lies of the Cheney administration to initiate Iraq war 2. Trump demonstrates here, the corruption of the system of sanctions.
From the folks that brought you Operation Timber Sycamore, here’s yet another example of a bankrupt ideology being practiced by a bunch of panicked old white men racing the debt clock.
One more rate hike and they can kiss their dreams of global domination goodbye.
On sanctions: why do I have to learn from a foreign newspaper that the government of North Korea will resume its nuclear program if the Trump administration does not soon begin to scrap sanctions. Why not here?
Perhaps Jason stepped out for a craft beer last night?
Perhaps because all we get locally is fake news?
Time to stop all international trade using the US dollar… and this US policy of self-isolation will go a long way toward bringing that about!
How does the world say f-ck you to the USA? Oh, maybe with the petro-yuan?
the usa has no right to tel any country what to do. sanctions are acts of war. how many violations has the usa had against the nnpt. they need to withdraw from it .
I just read a “yahoo” article here on antiwar. “The restoration of sanctions is part of a wider effort by U.S. President Donald Trump to force Iran to curb its nuclear and missile programs as well as its support for proxy forces in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and other parts of the Middle East.”
Notice the words “nuclear” and proxy forces giving the impression the USA is correct to do this. Slanted????
I just read a “yahoo” article here on antiwar. “The restoration of sanctions is part of a wider effort by U.S. President
Donald Trump to force Iran to curb its nuclear and missile programs as
well as its support for proxy forces in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and other
parts of the Middle East.”
Notice the assumption that Iran HAS nuclear programs and interferes in Yemen etc as proxy.
Notice the assumption that Iran HAS nuclear programs ..
Well yes, Iran does have a nuclear program, a perfectly acceptable nuclear power generation program. US politicians enjoy conflating Iran’s “nuclear program” (nuclear power generation) with “nuclear weapons program.” They get off on it.
US Govt Reimposes All Nuclear Sanctions Against Iran
The President announced three months ago what sanctions would be reimposed, eleven pages of them, mostly having nothing to do with nuclear.
Executive Order 13846 of August 6, 2018
Reimposing Certain Sanctions With Respect to Iran here
. . .including: (sample)
>Blocking Sanctions Relating to Support for the Government of Iran’s Purchase or Acquisition of U.S. Bank Notes or Precious Metals; Certain
Iranian Persons; and Iran’s Energy, Shipping, and Shipbuilding Sectors and Port Operators.
>Correspondent and Payable-Through Account Sanctions Relating to Iran’s Automotive Sector; Certain Iranian Persons; and Trade in Iranian Petroleum, Petroleum Products, and Petrochemical Products.
>Sanctions Relating to the Iranian Rial.