With the rest of the international community scrambling to try to save the Iran nuclear deal, the US continues to undermine the process with more and more sanctions.
The Treasury Department’s latest efforts are going after Chinese and UAE companies accused of being involved in Iranian oil shipment operations. They claim China is trying to keep getting “cheap Iranian oil.“
This is just the latest in a long line of efforts against trading houses, with Jam Petrochemical and its affiliates today’s target, accused of seeing hundreds of millions of dollars in products sent to East Asia.
The US sees stopping oil shipments out of Iran as a top priority, though so far this appears to be limited in its effectiveness, and comes at a time when high prices mean the US should be trying to get more oil on the global market.
The US envisions sanctions as being “tough” on Iran, thinking they are putting pressure on them for talks. At a vital time for making a deal, though, all they are really doing is convincing Iran that the US is not negotiating in good faith.
Iran’s application for membership in BRICS suggests that China has decided to push back on the illegal secondary sanctions imposed by Trump. China, as Trump found out, is capable of dishing out a few punishments of its own. US Soybean farmers can testify to that. If Blinken/Biden keep this up, they might start something they can’t reverse.
Israel does not care what China can inflict on USA, its salve. And the slave, USA, dose not care what happens to it. Obviously it can not
War with Iran is inevitable. The JCPOA is dead. As events progress, I expect Russia to sell Iran S-400 AD systems to upgrade the home-grown Iranian version of the S-300. The Chinese will probably kick in some more anti-ship missiles as well. The US will get more than it bargained for. And Hezbollah will teach Israel the meaning of “bomb shelter”.
“At a vital time for making a deal, though, all they are really doing is convincing Iran that the US is not negotiating in good faith.”
You’d have to be brain dead to think that ship didn’t sail long ago.
‘The U.S. Treasury Dept accuses the UAE / China of shipping Iranian oil’
GASP ! and what gives the U.S. the authority to dictate laws to other countries?
Sanction obsession is a permanent disease for US…!
I continue to pose this question to myself, first with the Trump admin. and now with Biden admin.
Does anyone is Washington even know what they are doing? Beyond that, why they are doing it?……..
“Doncha let that deal go down…”
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Does anyone is Washington even know what they are doing? Beyond that, why they are doing it”. No they need not. The Zionists do know. Master is not bound to disclose his intentions.
Simple