The US on Thursday imposed sanctions on the Russian intelligence agency FSB and the intelligence wing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) over allegations that they’re involved in the detainment of Americans.
The sanctions also targeted four Iranian IRGC intelligence officials. The move is symbolic as both the FSB and IRGC are already under sanctions. The Trump administration designated the IRGC as a “foreign terrorist organization” in 2019, which blacklisted anyone who has ever been a member of the military organization.
The sanctions on the FSB are seen as the Biden administration’s retaliation for Russia’s detainment of a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested over allegations of spying.
“Today, the Department of State and the Department of the Treasury have announced the US Government’s first-ever sanctions against actors for engaging in the wrongful detention of Americans,” President Biden said in a statement on the sanctions.
“Today — and every day — our message to Russia, Iran, and the world is holding hostage or wrongfully detaining Americans is unacceptable. Release them immediately,” the president added.
According to The New York Times, Biden administration officials acknowledged that the sanctions were “designed primarily as a way to send a message of disapproval to Russia and Iran” and won’t have much impact.
Sanctions are all they’ve got and they aren’t working
If they do the alternative it will mean body bags and lots of them , the US military won`t admit this but they are haunted by the night mare of Vietnam when bodies came back by the plane load , that`s why the US won`t fight anyone now who can fight back ie Russia , China , they will get idiots like the Ukraine or Taiwan to do their fighting for them while making money out of the weapon sales of course .
But committing terrorist acts and covert actions along the way are fine.
Which is what I believe the Azov folks in Ukraine will do when peace does come. These folks just will not stop, in Ukraine and Russia. The ISIS of Ukraine.
I was I guess too cryptically referring to the Nordstream bombing.
Russia could sanction Joey Biden, but he is already imprisoned in a failing body and depleted brain!
LOL, funny and true.
Sanction inflation is like standing on stage in front of flag inflation.
USA impotence picks from a meaningless bouquet of flags or sanctions.
LOL the US and it`s sanctions doing the same thing over and over again hoping for a different out come , it hasn`t sunk into there thick sculls everyone is protecting themselves from the US sanctions.
As I said early on when the U.S. was placing sanctions on Russia during the Obama Administration, “What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.”
From now on US sanctions do have impact… More isolation, de-dollarization, subordination and humiliation for US….!
Americans are fools if they believe that there will be no consequences for the American people to pay for the proxy war, that only the Europeans will suffer the consequences.
Biden is taking the nation over the cliff and the establishment, the political/corporate elite, is in denial, they are the people who made it possible and can’t face up to it. They keep digging a deeper hole.
Many Americans unfortunately fit into that category
That reporter used to work for the Moscow times. I honestly can’t blame the Russians for believing he was up to no good so far off the beaten track.
And, what was he doing wandering around in the Urals?
Perhaps up to no good?
It would be like a Sputnik hack wandering around Ukraine.
The new sanctions are a reminder to the world that the US will never stop trying to hurt others. It so badly emphasizes the 500,000 Iraqi deaths that Madeleine Albright said were worth it, the devastation to the Venezuelan economy that we inflicted by our sanctions there, and the damage we brag about doing to the Iranian people, err economy.
It is also a reminder that we took the bank reserves from Afghanistan when they were starving, insisted on sanctions despite this starvation, and insisted on sanctions forever against Russia while acknowledging that people not living in the US or Europe would starve as a result of US sanctions.
These actions are flat out anti-US.
“Today — and every day — our message to Russia, Iran, and the world is holding hostage or wrongfully detaining Americans is unacceptable. Release them immediately,” the president added.
This coming from a man that won’t close the offshore gulag called GITMO. A place holding people without trial for so long that Biden was coherent when they were first incarcerated.
Cuba should invade the detention camp, free the prisoners and kick yanks out of Cuba…!