De VS is bezig om binnenkort nog meer sancties op te leggen aan Iran, het gaat nu niet alleen meer om de Iran deal, maar om een verandering van regering, althans anders zijn de VS sancties niet uit te leggen…….
Het meest schunnige is wel dat de VS de Iraanse autoriteiten verwijdt haar volk te terroriseren, terwijl je daar maar één ‘land’ van kan beschuldigen, de grootste terreurentiteit op onze aarde, de VS zelf!!!
De psychopathische oorlogsmisdadiger Mattis en anderen verdraaien de werkelijkheid op zo’n belachelijk grove schaal dat het net lijkt of Iran haar eigen burgers laat sterven, terwijl de VS de werkelijke dader is……..
Zelfs levensreddende medicijnen zijn nu moeilijk te krijgen in Iran, het is werkelijk om te janken als je de voorbeelden leest in het hieronder opgenomen artikel, geschreven door Caitlin Johnstone.
Hoe is het mogelijk dat EU landen de VS niet al lang in de VN Veiligheidsraad hebben aangeklaagd voor grootschalige terreur??? En hoe is het mogelijk dat de EU Iran niet te hulp snelt……….
Het is te hopen dat het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) ten minste de enorme oorlogsmisdaden inventariseert die werden en worden begaan door de VS en onder die oorlogsmisdaden reken ik tegenwoordig ook de economische oorlogsvoering van de VS tegen landen die haar onwelgevallig zijn, zoals Iran, Venezuela en Nicaragua……… Sancties die in feite nooit de leiding van het betreffende land schaden, maar het volk van dat land, waarmee je deze sancties rustig als misdaad tegen de menselijkheid kan duiden, of zoals gezegd oorlogsmisdaden…….
De hoogste tijd dat de internationale gemeenschap de VS opdraagt haar troepen overal ter wereld terug te trekken, het barbaarse neokoloniale beleid van de VS moet gestopt worden! Bovendien dient men als de sodemieter af te stappen van de dollar als internationaal betaalmiddel (als de VS er financieel zo voor had gestaan, maar dan in de 20er jaren van de vorige eeuw, had men daar, net als destijds in Duitsland, bij wijze van spreken een kruiwagen vol met papiergeld nodig gehad om een brood te kopen…..).
De oorzaak van dat niet ingrijpen en bijvoorbeeld wel terechte sancties op te leggen aan de VS, is puur en alleen te danken aan het feit dat de dollar als internationaal betaalmiddel wordt gebruikt, terwijl de VS in feite meer dan failliet is >> de staatsschuld van de VS is niet meer in cijfers weer te geven……. Vandaar ook dat ons financiële systeem zal instorten als de dollar echt volledig onderuitgaat, iets dat welhaast niet is te voorkomen…… (ondanks dat men dit weet, worden er geen maatregelen genomen, alsof het om een konijn gaat dat in het koplicht van een aanstormende auto verstijft….)
US
Blames Iran for Impoverishing Civilians While Prepping
Further
Sanctions
November
1, 2018 at 12:28 pm
Written
by Caitlin
Johnstone
(CJ Opinion) — The
United States government is preparing to implement an additional
level of sanctions against Iran for its refusal to meet a dozen
demands that are so absurdly unreasonable that they have been
called a
regime change policy in all but name.
The sanctions which have already been implemented have already
badly hurt the
Iranian economy, the sting of which is being felt first and foremost
by Iran’s poor and sickly.
In
an article titled “Iran’s
poor to bear brunt of Trump’s oil sanctions”, Financial
Times documents
how poor Iranians are already strained to the breaking point from the
cutbacks they’ve had to make in food and groceries. An article
titled “In
Iran, US sanctions are being felt, with harsher measures to come”
by the Christian
Science Monitor details
difficulties Iranian charities are having getting medicine to sick
children, including chemotherapy treatment, having already run out of
four life-saving drugs. In an article titled “US
fails to shield humanitarian trade with Iran as sanctions loom”, Al
Monitor details
the way humanitarian aid, while ostensibly exempt from the sanctions,
has been severely impacted by their economic aspect because
humanitarian aid costs money. The Wall
Street Journal further
explains the effects of America’s economic warfare on ordinary
Iranian civilians in an article titled “Iran
Moves to Shelter Millions as U.S. Sanctions Bite”.
This
is before the
US implements a new level of attacks upon Iran’s oil industry, a
primary economic lifeline, which is scheduled to begin on November
fifth. If Iran can’t find a way to get around these crushing
sanctions in a significant way, many civilians already stretched far
too thin will be pushed past the breaking point.
And
who is the US government blaming for the consequences of its economic
warfare? Why, the Iranian government, of course.
The International Monetary Fund @IMFNews is projecting a 3.6% decline in #Iran’s economy next year. That’s what happens when the ruling regime steals from its people and invests in Assad—instead of creating jobs for Iranians, they ruin the economy.
“The
International Monetary Fund @IMFNews is projecting a 3.6% decline in
#Iran’s economy next year,” tweeted Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo. “That’s what happens when the ruling regime
steals from its people and invests in Assad — instead of
creating jobs for Iranians, they ruin the economy.”
Pompeo
talks about the Iranian people a lot. A recent State
Department release is
packed with lines like “Iran’s actions have made the country a
pariah, much to the despair of its own people”, and “clerics and
officials have wrapped themselves in the cloak of religion while
robbing the Iranian people blind,” and “The United States is
asking every nation that is sick and tired of the Islamic Republic’s
destructive behavior to stand up for the Iranian people.” But Mike
Pompeo does not care about the Iranian people. Plainly.
Sanctions
are so weird. Imagine if the US government had listed twelve
ridiculously extreme demands of Tehran, and then when those demands
weren’t met they launched a few dozen Tomahawk missiles into an
Iranian suburb. And imagine, if you will, what the response would be
if Secretary Pompeo had then issued a tweet saying “Boy, it sure
was awful of the Iranian regime to launch those missiles at its own
civilians!”
He
would never do such a thing, of course, because nobody would buy it.
But for some weird, entirely narrative-based reason, the US
government can get away with killing the same number of civilians by
depriving them of food and medicine and say it’s Iran’s fault for
not bowing to Washington’s twelve demands. The civilians would be
just as dead as they would have been if they were killed by Tomahawk
missiles, and the US government would be just as culpable for their
deaths as they would have been if they’d killed them by missile
strike. We can be absolutely certain that the US government would
acknowledge such economic sanctions as an act of war (which
they unquestionably are)
if any foreign nation ever implemented anything similar against
America. But for some weird, stupid, nonsense reason, the medieval
siege tactic of starving them to death and cutting them off from
supplies is something that can still be blamed on a sovereign nation
for refusing to obey the commands of a foreign government. For some
weird, stupid, nonsense reason, sanctions are the only form of
warfare where it is considered both legal and acceptable to
deliberately target a civilian population with lethal force.
My grandmother in Iran has gone blind in one eye because she can no longer access her diabetes medicine. Thanks America
My grandmother in Iran has gone blind in one eye because she can no longer access her diabetes medicine. Thanks America
The responses to this Tweet caught me off guard. Thank you for the kind words. But now I feel selfish for writing it. I didn’t want or expect sympathy; I wanted to make a point about the impact of sanctions on Iran — that it’s the ordinary people who suffer. And for what?
This,
by the way, is all coming after the UN’s highest court, the
International Court of Justice (ICJ), ordered the
United States to remove
any impediments to
humanitarian aide in the sanctions that it has implemented, to which
Washington responded by withdrawing
from two international agreements which
could lead to any legally binding rulings by the ICJ. Any other
nation which refuses to comply with UN rulings is branded a rogue
nation by the US-centralized empire and targeted for regime change,
but when the US does exactly the same thing we’re meant to look at
it as perfectly normal and acceptable.
The
US has defended its dismissal of the ICJ ruling by citing the
exemptions it has made for humanitarian aide in its sanctions, with
Secretary Pompeo asserting
the following:
“Existing
exceptions, authorizations, and licensing policies for
humanitarian-related transactions and safety of flight will remain in
effect. The United States has been actively engaged on these issues
without regard to any proceeding before the ICJ. We’re working
closely with the Department of the Treasury to ensure that certain
humanitarian-related transactions involving Iran can and will
continue.”
“Not
only is he not being accurate, he is lying,” Trita Parsi of the
National Iranian American Council told
the Real
News of
Pompeo’s remarks. “The Trump administration has not issued a
single license since they took power. They know quite well that
they’re doing everything to scare banks away from the Iranian
market, which then is affecting the ability for the Iranians to pay
for medicine and medical supplies, even though that is supposedly
exempt. So essentially what they’re saying, hey, we made those
exempt. Yes, but you have targeted the financial system so harshly,
so indiscriminately, so no bank is willing to handle transactions
with Iranian banks. And as a result the Iranians cannot buy medical
supplies, and their medical shortages are a direct result of the
sanctions.”
What
will Secretary Pompeo say when civilians begin dropping dead? Will he
claim that “the price is worth it”, as his predecessor Madeleine
Albright said of
the thousands of Iraqi children killed in sanctions upon Iraq? Will
he cite the constantly
recurring lie that
it is because Iran is the world’s top sponsor of terrorism? Will he
claim that it is because it is somehow wrong for Iran to defend its
ally Syria from the violent jihadist factions who attempted to effect
regime change in Damascus with western backing? Or will he just be
honest, and admit that it’s because Iran has one of the few
governments in the strategically crucial and resource-rich Middle
East which has refused to be absorbed into the blob of the US empire?
Hey, a girl can dream.
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Opinion
by Caitlin
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Republished with permission / Medium / Report
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Zie ook:
‘Trump administratie chanteert en bedreigt de EU over ‘schending’ onterechte VS-sancties tegen Iran‘
‘Iran houdt zich aan nucleair verdrag, ondanks VS agressie‘
‘SWIFT betalingssysteem raakt monopolie (gelukkig) kwijt‘
‘Frankrijk beschermt Iran tegen de ‘politieagent’ van de wereld, de VS‘
‘The New Tyranny of the Dollar‘
‘Jeremy Bowen (BBC correspondent) vindt Iran een gevaar voor het Midden-Oosten‘
‘Trump volgt het scenario van deep state: oorlog met Iran ‘is onvermijdelijk….’‘
‘Iraanse protesten gezien door de propaganda bril van de VS en de rest van het westen……..‘
‘Protesten Iran opgezet door de VS en Israël‘
‘Iraanse protesten allesbehalve compleet spontaan (zoals VS ambassadeur bij de VN Haley durfde te stellen…)….‘
‘US Empire Is Running The Same Script With Iran That It Ran With Libya, Syria‘
‘Nikki Haley (VS ambassadeur in de VN) bedreigt sjiitisch Iran met militair ingrijpen……‘ (klik ook op de links onder dat bericht)
‘VS liegt schaamteloos om het westen verder op te zetten tegen Iran……..‘
‘Iran: moderne oorlogspropaganda ingezet door VS tegen ‘ongehoorzaam land…’‘
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