How long have we been withholding Iran’s money from Iran?
What gives us the right to withhold Iran’s money from Iran?
How much of what Iran has been doing (I abhor Islam, terrorist and totalitarian regimes) is due to us making them do as we say in order to have the money that rightfully belongs to them?
samiam, I really don’t want to get crosswise with you on this...you have been on here longer than I have, and this is the first time in twenty years I think I have ever had discourse with you. I try to respect those who have been on here longer than I have, and besides, I am tired of being at odds with people who ostensibly should by my allies, not my irritated enemies.
So if this sounds harsh, it is not directed specifically at you...this is a situation that angers me, and has angered me since 1979.
Iran violated all norms and laws by taking over our embassy in Tehran in 1979. As of that time, they forfeited every single bit of forbearance, tolerance, or good will or faith they might have had in this country.
They kept US Citizens hostage for 444 days.
Beginning with the deaths of our servicemen in operation Eagle Claw, and extending all the way into TODAY, they have been responsible for the expenditure of hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars to combat their open aggression.
Iran turned Lebanon into a blood bath in 1975, resulting in the loss of 150,000 lives.
They have been engaging in proxy wars never mind outright wars (as the Embassy takeover should have resulted in a declared war) for the intervening decades. they were directly responsible for thousands of deaths including many of our troops.
I don’t give a damn about “us making them do as we say”, and I regard that “excuse” from other people as an execrable show of pathetic weakness and an open invitation to aggression. Their leadership are a bunch of filthy, scummy. racist sons of bitches who should be strung up by their heels with piano wire as far as I am concerned.
I had Iranian friends before the tyrannical pukes took over in 1979 and have worked with many Iranian expatriates who attained American citizenship, and I enjoyed their company...many of the others I knew were forced to go back to Iran, so I judge Individual Iranians on their own merits.
If the rest of the world had any guts, Iran would have been international pariahs, cut off from all commerce, interactions, and aid in much the way North Korea has largely been.
If I had my way, Iran wouldn’t be allowed to produce a single drop of oil outside the Persian land mass, and the oil the did produce from their land would be good only for their consumption, and it would stay that way until they paid restitution to the rest of the world for their barbaric, racist, and blood-drenched actions in the last 40 years.
For what they have done to the world in general and the USA in particular, they. have NO “RIGHT” to ANY money, ANYWHERE. They have ZERO right to any money WE have any control over, and if the rest of the pathetic world had one single testicle between all of them, they would be on board for that.