Dozens of merchant ships carrying grain and sugar are stuck outside Iranian ports due to payment issues as a result of Western sanctions, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
While US and other Western sanctions technically have exemptions for food and other humanitarian goods, the Reuters report said the “impact of the sanctions on Iran’s financial system have created complex and erratic payment arrangements with international companies.”
The payment issues have left 40 ships stuck outside Iranian ports, which are estimated to be holding about $1 billion worth of cargo. Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization said in November that ships off Iran were unable to unload due to “documentation and hard currency payment issues.”
Alena Douhan, a UN special rapporteur, issued a report in September detailing how US and other Western sanctions harm Iranians. She said since US sanctions were reimposed in 2018, food insecurity has “soared” in Iran, reaching 60% in certain areas.
Douhan said that the sanctions have “severely undermined” the delivery of medicine and medical goods to Iran. She said that licenses that are supposed to be issued by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control to ensure exemptions “appeared to be ineffective and nearly non-existent.”
There’s no sign that US sanctions on Iran will be lifted anytime soon, as video surfaced Tuesday of President Biden saying the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, is “dead.” Since JCPOA talks fell apart in September, the US has increased sanctions on Iran.
It’s called a seige in old fashioned parlance. This is meant to starve and kill the population into submission.
Nicely stated.
The elite in Iran will gorge themselves,he poor will suffer and be given scapegoats. Iran will still find plenty of money for its weapons projects. Nothing new.
It is not the money, but transaction and transfer of the money.
The elite in Israel will gorge themselves, the poor will suffer and be given scapegoats. Israel will still find plenty of money for its weapons projects. Nothing new.
The elite in Ukraine will gorge themselves, the poor will suffer and die and be given scapegoats. Israel will still find plenty of money for its weapons projects. Nothing new.
The elite in Europe will gorge themselves, while the lesser Europeans will suffer and be given scapegoats. Israel will still find plenty of money to “vassalize” Europe. Nothing new.
The elite in the US will gorge themselves, the poor will suffer and be given scapegoats. The US will still find plenty of money for Israel and its weapons projects. Nothing new.
Jacob’s hasbara will continue, and will continue to serve the Straussian/Neocon/Zionist world domination project.
That is, it will continue until “the world” has yet again had enough.
All empires, the Straussian/Neocon/Zionists being by no means unique, have sought world domination, and all have failed.
The Straussian/Neocon/Zionists are unique only in their persistence, having tried and failed five or six times over the millennia.
Simply beyond the pale. This obsession of yours with blaming a people that number all of 15 million with controlling and/or planning to take over the world borders on clinical paranoia that should be medicated.
He didn’t mention the people you’re referring to. He knows what happens when he goes there, so he’s usually careful to limit his claims to specific ideological groups rather than the entire ethnic population he actually means.
Has the hasbara organization assigned you to keep an eye on me and generate pushback?
What mayhap is your ethnic loyalty?
The US is Israel’s bitch, as is Europe. Western “liberal democracies” all have the inherent flaw that they can be “bought”. Which is what Israel does … buys them, for wholesale of course. The buying vehicle is simple: campaign contributions.
Your “secret” is out, Odele.
By the way, I’m a full-blooded Ashkenazi Jew, just not a Zionist criminal.
“By the way, I’m a full-blooded Ashkenazi Jew”
So? So was Daniel Burros.
The Nazi hierarchy were full-blooded Aryan Christians, too.
Give the full quote, Thomas. Don’t strip of its context.: “By the way, I’m a full-blooded Ashkenazi Jew, just not a Zionist criminal.”
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Whether you are an Ashkenazi Jew or not is of no interest to me. But I do find your comments here interesting. You claim that western democracies have been bought by Israel. But you also say the following:
The Straussian/Neocon/Zionists are unique only in their persistence, having tried and failed five or six times over the millennia.
So have the Zionist tried and failed five or six times over the millennia?
You see it’s clear that when you say “Zionists and Neocons” you mean the Jews. Buf you’re not clever enough to cover up your true meaning well enough.
I call you a liar. Just be a man and say what you really mean
Once again: If he says what he really means, his comments get deleted and he gets banned. He knows this, so he does his best to dog-whistle to his fellow bigots without technically breaking the rules. And if he’s not technically breaking the rules, he’s not breaking the rules. Quit urging him to break the rules.
I’m really not urging him to break the rules. Actually I’m quite happy when these types show their true colours.
It must have been painful for you to have to correct Odele’s misinterpretation. Twice. My sympathies.
Regarding me and my “fellow bigots” … shame on you, Thomas. You know better. A passion for justice is hardly bigotry.
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May you and all those you love be safe.
Merry Christmas/Happy New Year to you and yours as well.
There were so many “dog whistles” and “tropes” against Saddam Hussein and they did reference that religion too.
I am not trying to cover up anything. I am compelled to use these more focused terms — Zionists, Straussian supremacists, Neocons, Israelis, Likudniks etc — for two reasons: (1)because “the Jews” is a broad noun which unjustly accuses all while failing to identify and distinguish between the criminal extremists and the innocent, or assign these disparate factions their deserved levels of culpability, and (2) the Moderator will not allow me to use the terms “the Jews”.
And then, when it comes to “being a man” — applicable to women as well — I would ask you how you live with yourself in light of your tribal loyalty-based support of Zionist criminality? Theft of Palestine, slow motion genocide of the Palestinians, subversion of Western Democracies, etc?
Answer: “It’s what criminals do.”
Very good. So again please explain what you mean when you are calling out the Zionists and Neocons who have “tried and failed five or six times over the millennia”?
And what do you mean by your statement that it will continue until the world has “yet again” had enough?
Don’t pretend to be something that you are not. This is Jew hatred pure and simple. When you say otherwise you are, as I said before, simply a liar
Yup, we haven’t really moved past medieval warfare. Heck, we are still sanctioning Cuba 70 years later and our best buddies Israel is still blockading Gaza.
It’s called a seige in old fashioned parlance. This is meant to starve and kill the population into submission.
We are behaving a bit primitively…The ‘deal’ might be dead but innocent Iranians will be dying, if this keeps up…
Innocent Iranians have been doing since ’59.
What happened in ’59?
As Jeff Davis suggested, this is probably a reference to CIA Operation Ajax, which helped topple the government of Iran’s first elected Prime Minister (Mohammad Mosaddegh)
That was in ’53.
You probably meant ’53.
Yes thanks, my memory fails me now.
That’s…..part of the plan
And they call Putin a war criminal.
The land of the “free” is nothing but a haven for jackals
It would appear that Biden is channeling Clinton. Cold blooded.
Probably on Bibi’s orders. I doubt Biden could think of something this complicated.
Madelein Albright with regard starving 500,000 Iraqi children: “it was all worth it”. If this was not genocide , what is?
Being the world’s mean-spirited ones again!
Biden won’t feed hungry children unless he can sniff them first. Is the old Epstein express still flying? Load it up with bags of wheat and give Bill Clinton the photo op he needs.
Let’s face it: the US is spoiling to take down Iran. For multiple nefarious reasons. For their best buddies Israel. For their old pals Saudi Arabia. Because Iran spoiled its party in 1980 with the Shah packing his stuffed bags. For refusing to kowtow to the US “rules based order”, or whatever witchcraft that actually means.
The only thing probably preventing them is voter weariness with middle eastern intrigues. But be sure, before long, the warmongers on both sides of the political spectrum will seek to invade under some nonsense reason or other.
God help us.
More assholery from uncle joe.
The sanctions violence — economic siege warfare — is costly and harmful to all its victims. Neither the sellers, shippers nor the Iranians should put up with it.
The Iranian navy should escort the ships into port and the unloading should proceed, “documentation” BS notwithstanding. Then let the “payment issues” be worked out in due course.