Posted on 06/24/2019 6:32:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Iranian officials have railed for two months against the Trump administration’s sanctions blocking their oil sales as “economic warfare.”
But the response to the latest American penalties imposed on Monday, which targeted the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior leaders, was more measured, even mocking.
“Ridiculous,” declared a headline from the semiofficial Fars News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
“Are there really any sanctions that the U.S. hasn’t imposed against our country and people in the past 40 years?” a foreign ministry spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, asked reporters in Tehran. “And what did it achieve?”
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SIGN UP An Iranian calling himself K. Jafari wrote in a widely circulated tweet: “The only people left to sanction are me, my dad and our neighbor’s kid. The foreign ministry should share Trump’s phone number so we can call him and give him our names.”
In contrast to the threats and bluster of Tehran’s previous responses to the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign, Iranians across the political spectrum dismissed the latest embargoes on Monday as little more than insults. Both hard-liners and reformers argued that the new sanctions would have little practical impact, aside from undermining Mr. Trump’s repeated assertions that he is seeking to renew talks with Tehran, if only to restrict its nuclear weapons program.
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The New York Times? Does anyone actually believe anything they publish these days?
Same story, same result.
Did they say “We fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberry”?
If not then I say there was no true mockery. Therefore, I say the above mockery to the NY Times writer of this fake news.
They’re slightly less credible than The Onion. And far less entertaining.
It’s actually kind of a good point. 40 years of sanctions haven’t accomplished a thing. And offhand, I really cannot think of anywhere else that sanctions have changed a nation into acting the way we want.
I personally agree that engaging militarily is not the right move, and is a last resort action. The sanctions are in fact having a profound effect on their economy, which in turn destabilizes the regime. Will it affect regime change, probably not. That would take a military operation in my opinion.
Any body know where we can find the details of the sanctions? I have read the sanctions are particularly aimed at the ruling elite. Would like to get details on the sanctions.
Yeah, I do think another war in the middle east with a nation twice the size of Texas and 4 times the size of Iraq is a rather bad idea.
And yeah, my observation is that i cannot think of anywhere else that sanctions have produced any useful effect... can you?
As for my answer, Iran wants a bomb for exactly one reason, to make yourself invasion proof and too dangerous to attack. They correctly assess that Khaddafy and Saddam would still be alive if they had a nuke.
Our current manic invasion binge is one of the prime causes of small broke dictatorships wanting nukes.
I personally won't go to the website, but I got if off of a search.
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