New Iran sanctions announced

[Scoop]

Trump administration announces new sanctions against Iran
By LOUIS NELSON

02/03/17 10:33 AM EST

The Treasury Department on Friday announced a new wave of sanctions against Iran, taking formal action against the Islamic Republic just two days after National Security Adviser Michael Flynn said the U.S. was “officially putting Iran on notice.”

The sanctions come in response to a recent missile test conducted by Iran as well as an attack by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen against a Saudi naval vessel.

According to the Treasury Department release, the sanctions target “multiple entities and individuals involved in procuring technology and/or materials to support Iran’s ballistic missile program, as well as for acting for or on behalf of, or providing support to, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force.”

Trump administration announces new sanctions against Iran

 

[DonKnock]

This is Bannon's target, we will be going to war with them.

Bannon probably wants to reopen the war against the Turks


On War Against the Turk - Wikipedia

 

[T-K-G]

Just got the alert for this


nikka tweeted out "Iran is playing with fire — they don't appreciate how 'kind' President Obama was to them. Not me!"

trump is literally the most dangerous comedian on the planet right now

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Just got the alert for this


nikka tweeted out "Iran is playing with fire — they don't appreciate how 'kind' President Obama was to them. Not me!"

trump is literally the most dangerous comedian on the planet right now

He's gonna start world war three through twitter while nazi wormtongue is in his ear egging him on

 

[David_TheMan]

In te long run this is accelerating the end of US hegemony globablly, a good thing.
That said this will cause a war with China nad Russia and probably dissolve half the US's alliances in europe militarily.

 

[Arithmetic]

This is INSANE. He has created tension with Iran to force us to forget his alleged ties to Russia.

 

[Uncle Hotep]

In te long run this is accelerating the end of US hegemony globablly, a good thing.
That said this will cause a war with China nad Russia and probably dissolve half the US's alliances in europe militarily.

not if Putin gives him the greenlight

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

trumps gonna accidentally the whole thing.

 

[David_TheMan]

This is INSANE. He has created tension with Iran to force us forget his alleged ties to Russia.

Except he seems to have forgotten or maybe the person trump has over iran, that russia and iran are extremely close.
SMH

 

[David_TheMan]

not if Putin gives him the greenlight

green light for what, it isn't in russia's interest to attack Iran, also China is invested in Iran as well.
There is no rationale behind what they are donig to Iran, outside of doing this for the benefit of the house of saud, which makes the most sense since trump is bombing the Houthis in Yemen.

 

[Primetime21]

Just got the alert for this


tweeted out "Iran is playing with fire — they don't appreciate how 'kind' President Obama was to them. Not me!"

trump is literally the most dangerous comedian on the planet right now

 

[Scoop]

Odd to see the trend from some people is too appease everyone, even objectively evil countries and nations, simply to avoid upsetting them.

Seems very 1938.

(Appease everyone except Russia of course, because Trump golden showers or something like that...)

 

[Jimi Swagger]

First issue US immigration bans on Iran's allies and then sanction her...this is playing out well.

 

[Althalucian]

Odd to see the trend from some people is too appease everyone, even objectively evil countries and nations, simply to avoid upsetting them.

Seems very 1938.

(Appease everyone except Russia of course, because Trump golden showers or something like that...)

Objectively evil countries like the US?

 

[FAH1223]

U.N. Security Council 2231 calls upon Iran not to test ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

Nothing new here. The EU still has sanctions on Iran for its missile program for 6 more years. The US is sanctioning Iran over the missile program.

This has nothing to do with the Nuclear Deal.

However, the UN Security Council resolution says Iran is not to be testing ballistic missiles capable of carrying nukes. Russia has said this test doesn't breach the resolution. If this were to go to the security council, Russia/China would veto any broad international sanctions aimed at Iran which aren't happening.

Iran was never serious about nuclear arms but they were dead serious about issues of sovereignty and keeping its right to maintain scientific research and control over the entire nuclear fuel cycle. Iran isn't stupid and they realize that a few nuclear warheads is not enough deterrence. Their whole strategy was keeping the ability to build weapons and using its nuclear program as bargaining chip to get sanctions cleared.

This is why Russia and China supported and pushed for the talks. It took a while because of US refusal to negotiate in good faith and the constant moving of goal posts
even though the CIA's official position in the 1990s was that Iran had a civilian program.

What made the nuclear deal happen was the EU threatening to leave the sanctions behind the scenes and Obama buckled under pressure because it was more important to keep leverage over the EU (and maintaining dollar hegemony) than have sanctions on Iran.... which other US allies were busting anyway.

Now that UN sanctions are gone, US sanctions do not matter because the understanding was that the US will never have peace with Iran and will continue to bully and scare European companies from investing in Iran.

China will continue investing heavily in Iran and oil exports will continue to be at their levels despite OPEC cuts.