Taking a break from the usual strategy of imposing new sanctions against Iran every week or so, the Obama Administration’s Office of Foreign Asset Control has announced a slight easing of sanctions related to medicine and food sales to Iran.
Before, anyone trying to sell any sort of medicine to Iran had to get a special license from the administration to do so. Now, the Treasury Department is offering a “standing authorization” on certain types of medicine that will “ease the paperwork burden.”
It isn’t a humanitarian endeavor, according to officials, but rather an attempt to placate Western critics of an array of sanctions which are increasingly targeting innocent Iranian civilians by removing some of the most cited criticisms.
Whether the change will actually make it any easier to send medicine to Iran remains to be seen, as many aid groups, which supposedly didn’t need Treasury Department permission in the first place, were finding it almost impossible to ship aid to the nation because of a number of poorly worded executive orders and a general sense that any dealings, legal or not, are “frowned upon.”
That probably why the jobless numbers are less then last month in US, Look: more sanctions you have more well effect your job market at home, it is not the Iranian people who would suffer, those in EU and US also suffering the consequences of these sanctions. 40-80 billion dollars business with Iran, Syria and other nations that are under sanctions is no longer there, somehow and someway it will effect US and EU working man and women as well. Did you get it Hillary Clinton… did you..? No wonder you are traveling all over the world, looking for loopholes wanting to find a way out of a very very very bad policies of yours.., because you don't get it and you never will.
Sooooo…Big Pharma sent their lobbyists to Washington to save the day, eh?