Speaking Wednesday morning about the deescalation of military tensions with Iran, President Trump announced that he intends to impose “powerful new sanctions” against them “until Iran changes its behavior.”
There is no indication what the new sanctions will be, and generally speaking, Trump Administration sanctions end up being almost word-for-word repeats of sanctions already in effect, meaning they’re just reiterating penalties already imposed.
This is a consequence of several decades of sanctions against Iran, which have left every Iranian official of any note at all sanctioned long ago, and nobody with ties to Iran leaving any assets in territory where the US government could get at it.
The sanctions will likely be something for the administration to trot out before the US press as real retaliation against Iran, while Iran dismisses them as having little to no impact. This has been the general trend for such sanctions for years, and while it will be presented as retaliation for Iranian strikes, the US could just as well have imposed more toothless sanctions at any time on any pretext.
Trump speech was pathetic. He was surrounded by neocons and the puppets of the Military industrial complex.
As usual, the MSM swallowed the whole pathetic speech, without question anything.
Dog can bite but won’t bite . US wouldn’t retaliate against feeble missile attack. Iran couldn’t retaliate effectively against Zio run USA.
TV evangelicals told and morons heard . Fox claimed and people watched with satisfaction and manifest destiny .
But the dog decided to fold the tail ,curl it behind absentee balls, and turned neck sideways with dog moaning . Then it left Hasakah.( https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200109-syria-us-forces-withdraw-from-2-bases-in-hasakah/)
Those bases truly never made sense militarily. Throughout the war, Syrian Army kept its base there, and while Kurds occasionally interfered with supplies, soldiers remained.
The bases seemed to have POLITICAL not military goal. At the time, US planned to keep a large swaths of territory in Nort-East, along Turkish-Iraqi border, down Euphrates valley, in to Jordanian border — all under mythical SDF forces, factually just YPG. It did not work. For multiple reasons. Kurds could liberate anything from ISIS, but they could not stay for ever ruling over Arab majority areas. Turkey would not accept partitioning of Syria, coming in the guise of Kurdish autonomy. With the loss of Kurdish project in Iraq, Syrian was not viable. US had to fold.
I have stopped looking for what makes sense . I have been using prism of common sense . You should be changing the glasses and be better off in understanding what and why meaningless violence and continued arrogance make sense to US.
I burned down my neighbors house because I shot his dog.
Oh, in that case….
Don’t believe everything you see.
Hopefully it is BS and in fact somewhere else he loosens sanctions. Kind of like the showy Iranian missile strike that did little damage.
All are illegal of course.
I doubt it. All the sanctions that really matter are already applied.
Trump should not be allowed to remain as president. He should be either in jail or in a mental institution.
Trump should threaten double secret probation.
These sanctions will come in a form of pulling out Of Iraq by election day and a hand shake with Javad Zarif.
Since the author refers to the US crippling sanctions on the Iranian people as “toothless” does he advocate for even harsher sanctions?
Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali al-Hakim has stressed the need for US and other foreign troops to leave Iraq as a backlash grows over the recent American assassination of a top Iranian general in Baghdad.
The top Iraqi diplomat made the appeal during a joint press briefing with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Baghdad on Thursday.
Hakim and Cavusoglu strongly condemned the US assassination of Iran’s Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and senior Iraqi commander of the Popular Mobilization Units Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, both key figures in the fight against Daesh and other Takfiri terrorists in the Middle East.
“Iraq insists on maintaining its sovereignty and territorial integrity and the complete withdrawal of foreign forces,” the top Iraqi diplomat said.https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/09/615761/Iraq-Turkey-Mevlut-Cavusoglu-Iran-Qassem-Soleimani-PMU-bu-Mahdi-al-Muhandis-US
Trump should threaten double secret probation.