Posted on 06/24/2019 5:04:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The US move to reimpose sanctions on Iran and choke off the last remaining sources of Tehran's oil revenue has crippled the Iranian economy. For many ordinary Iranians, it's becoming increasingly hard to get by.
US President Donald Trump has slapped fresh sanctions on Iran as part of his "maximum pressure" campaign against the Middle Eastern nation. Trump's executive order on Monday targeted none other than Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his associates with financial sanctions.
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Trump's order will lock up billions of additional dollars in Iranian assets.
Tehran and Washington are currently locked in a bitter standoff, and escalating tensions have fueled fears of an unintended slide toward a military confrontation between the two sides, particularly after Iran shot down a US spy drone over the Persian Gulf last week.
The US has also beefed up its military presence in the region and blacklisted Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a "foreign terrorist organization." In response, Iran declared the US a "state sponsor of terrorism" and American forces in the Middle East and beyond as "terrorist groups."
Last year, Trump unilaterally pulled the US out of the landmark nuclear deal that Iran and six world powers struck in 2015. He has since reimposed wide-ranging sanctions, aimed at putting an end to Iran's oil exports, crippling its main source of foreign exchange and forcing Tehran to abandon its nuclear ambitions...
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My only question would be, why wasn’t this done long ago?
One Rial, by the way, is currently worth $0.000024 US, 2.4 one-thousandths of a cent. One dollar will buy you 40,000 Rials.
Gosh, I guess Iran should renounce nuclear weapons!!
LOL! I kill me. Fat chance. Funny how all their problems would go away if they did this but not only Iran but the traitorous Western Europeans want Iran to get nukes too.
Last I understood Iran invaded our embassy and, thus, may be considered at war with the United States.
I am sure the State Department or John Kerry or Valerie Jarrett or some other piece of garbage is shoveling them US dollars.
Will people die of starvation and/or lack of proper medical care as a result of these sanctions, or will it just merely be an inconvenience for the average Iranian?
But the full nelson is on the leadership - do you know?
Notice how our Yurp “allies” took specific steps to undermine our foreign policy.
It’s not the nuclear weapons so much as Iran’s attempts to bypass the US Dollar selling their oil.
The USA cannot afford country after country chipping away at Dollar dominance, aka, reserve status.
If you look you’ll find that virtually every country we have a major problem with has worked to conduct international business outside of the Dollar system.
Of course, threatening Israel doesn’t help.
“My only question would be, why wasn’t this done long ago?”
the same reason you don’t kneecap both knees to start with: you do one, and you have the threat of doing the other one if the first one doesn’t do the job ...
If this doesn’t work, I wonder what the next step is?
“If this doesn’t work, I wonder what the next step is? “
ankles ...
they have been selling us out for decades..graaavy train
This would be an excellent time for another Deep State visit by John Kerry to Tehran.
He would make a fine hostage—in the minds of stupid mullahs. And they need some quick cash.
The Trump tweets would make the whole thing worthwhile.
And President Trump opens more land for domestic drilling.
What was their point exactly?
In two weeks they would be offering us hard currency to take him back.
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