Posted on 01/13/2020 5:07:22 AM PST by C19fan
Smartphone videos of anti-regime protests in Tehran circulated in global news media this weekend, after the Iranian government admitted it shot down a Ukrainian civilian airliner. The latest demonstrations followed a national wave of protests last November in which up to 1,500 demonstrators were killed. Hard information about the origins and extent of the anti-regime protests is difficult to find. But there is a good deal of evidence of extreme dissatisfaction with the regime due to economic stress.
Iran’s average monthly after-tax wage was US$318.53, according to the website Numbeo, which tallies thousands of user inputs to arrive at wage and price data.
Using Numbeo’s prices I constructed a monthly survival budget in US dollar equivalents:
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“birthrate dropping precipitously”
We have people we can send them.
Obama’s $150 billion life line has been spent. Since May’s revocation of oil waivers they’re down to next to nothing from oil. Desperate times, and now new sanctions will push the regime to it’s breaking point. The mullahs last hope is Pelosi riding in on her broom to save the day.
I suggest sending over arms and ammunition to the Iranian people using El Chapo money to finance it. Reverse Iran/Contra.
Excellent idea
The bar graph shows about 300,000 barrels per day whereas the pie chart shows about 1,700,000 barrels per day. There is a 1.4 million barrel per day discrepancy apparently resulting from the sanctions.
If the Forbes bar chart is right, sales now are not even the total pie chart shown for China.
It would seem the world has decided there is no benefit to resisting President trump’s sanctions. there is no benefit to buying Iranian oil when there is plenty available elsewhere.
Iran is fatally screwed
I saw, Mnuchin or Pompeo being interviewed by Pirro last week. When Pirro reminded the secretary that China was buying 70% of Iranian oil exports the response was basically, yes, but its 70% of nothing. Any nation violating the Iranian sanctions will suffer resultant sanctions themselves, including China. Iranian oil revenue is now a thing of the past.
So then we must post for the record
For the record, plainly stated, the solimani planning to attack embassies or what ever was the primary Iranian retaliation to attack President Trump and remove sanctions before the elections.
Thus we conclude that Iran continues to use surrogates because it lacks the military power to attack directly. We can conclude that the sanctions curtailed Iranian crude sales to the point where the failed attack plan was stymied by killing off the primary planner. We can conclude that Iran lacked the ability to mount the Pearl Harbor attack the Japs made in response to American Sanctions
Predictably, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi did not appreciate the message, responding: "Hands and tongues smeared with threatening, sanctioning and terrorizing the Iranian nation, are not entitled to dishonor the ancient Persian language." At the time of this writing the tweet has amassed more than 356,000 likes. Saeed Ghasseminejad, a senior adviser and financial economist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said it broke a Twitter record and displayed "a strong show of support by Iranians for Trump's Iran policy" which the mainstream media will ignore.
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