With an eye toward potentially limiting Joe Biden’s room to move if he wins the election, the Trump Administration has imposed a new series of sanctions against Iran, targeting the nation’s oil industry, already heavily sanctioned, with counter-terrorism limits.
Built around labeling the Quds Force as terrorists, the US is linking several other parts of Iran’s economy, from the petroleum ministry to the National Iranian Tanker Company, to be terrorists by the same token.
Beyond generally targeting Iran, the US measures are built around keeping Iran, which the US broadly forbids to sell oil and gas, from selling oil and gas to Syria and Venezuela. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says this should “serve as a warning.”
The US doesn’t want Iran to sell, and doesn’t want Venezuela to buy. This has generally not mattered to the two nations. The US seems to want to make a point of putting more sanctions to it, and trying to connect the whole thing to terrorism, but in general it probably won’t hinder ongoing trade, since neither Iran nor Venezuela has many alternatives.
The reality is that the CIA, and the US State Department have without any doubt, sponsored more Terrorist groups than the Iranians are claimed to have supported, be absolutely clear , there would be NO Al Qaeda but for the CI(A sponsoring Bin Ladin in Afghanistan to overthrow the Afghanistan Government. There would be no ISIS if the US State Department and the CIA did not support Al Nusra Front the parent group that begat ISIS. US trained funded and supplied foreign insurgents from Iraq, to overthrow the Syrian Government under the guise of a so called civil war. Those insurgents went in and murdered Men women and children beheading any person that was not a Sunni, or taking them as sex slaves, and yet the US has the audacity to call Iranians that tried to stop ISIS as Terrorists!
Forget the Axis of Evil. The real issue is the Apex of Evil, aka the USA.
Trump and his fat little pig, Pompeo are OWNED by Israel .. they do not work for the US.
“Built around labeling the Quds Force as terrorists, the US is linking several other parts of Iran’s economy, from the petroleum ministry to the National Iranian Tanker Company, to be terrorists by the same token.”
We’ll have to add the National Iranian Tanker Company(NITC) as another terrorist group that the Taliban has to promise not to harbor in Afghanistan. And we must immediately start some counterterrorism operation to make sure we fight the National Iranian Tanker Company(NITC) over there so we don’t have to fight the National Iranian Tanker Company(NITC) here.