The US Treasury Department announced a new round of anti-Iran sanctions
on Friday, hitting 14 individuals and 17 companies, all of them who
have some link to Iran’s Organization for Defense Innovation and
Research (SPND).
It is unclear if these targets are generally accused of having done
anything illegal, in and of themselves, though officials claimed some of
the companies were “front companies” who might be used to avoid
sanctions.
The individual scientists being targeted are another matter, as some of
them are being “former nuclear weapons scientists,” and the sanctions
are intended to harm their ability to work on any such activity in the
future, if they were ever so inclined.
Officials say that the broad purpose of the sanctions is to discourage Iranian scientists from taking jobs with the SPND, whether legal or not, for fear of being targeted. They added “it’s not a wise thing to be involved in.”
Being sanctioned with an actual sanction is a lot better than being killed by an Israeli assassin, though.
Don’t give them any ideas. Next they’ll tell us they were concerned with these men’s safety, hence the humanitarian sanctions.
I’ve come to believe Don & Co. keep piling sanctions on Iran just to pleasure themselves.
Sanctioning individuals for working in the defense sector? And not for anything they are doing but for something they are capable of doing? That’s embarrassing, even for us.
Careful, you might be personally sanctioned yerself……
Dictators dream….
Squeezing blood out of a turnup.
GMOs. Never say it can’t be done.
He could sanction spleef :?O
I was going to mention something about that but I didn’t want to sound like a one trick pony.
Eh, there is reason why the mythology of Achilles heal has survived the test of time.
Treasury will need a supercomputer to keep track of all US sanctions imposed around the world.
You mean the scientists they have not already murdered with Israel’s cooperation???
Gotta get ’em all.
Playing cards to follow.
I wonder how many remember the playing cards thing.
Likely very few of the millennial antiwars.
Maybe just cut to the quick, sanction everybody , then remove them after they bow fealty…
As America is the only country ever to have dropped atomic bombs on cities, at a time when it was the only country to possess them, having America decide who can and who can’t have nuclear weapons is like the Nazis deciding who can and who can’t have gas chambers.
True, and if the US had a sense of responsibility, we would realize that as the creators of the nuclear nightmare, we should also lead in their prohibition.