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Iran: West launches sanctions war against Iran
The West has launched an “all-out … war” against Iran by imposing oil and banking sanctions on his country, Iran’s president charged Tuesday.
In July, the European Union banned oil imports from Iran, just after the U.S. enacted tough measures against Iran’s central bank. The sanctions, aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear development program, have severely harmed Iran’s economy.
Speaking on a live TV talk show, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, “It is an all-out, hidden, heavy war.”
Ahmadinejad admitted that the West’s sanctions have created problems in oil exports and banking.
“There are barriers in transferring money, there are barriers in selling oil,” said Ahmadinejad.
“We are going ahead, and God willing we will succeed,” said Ahmadinejad. “We are removing” the barriers, he said, without saying how.
Ahmadinejad said the banking embargo has affected Iran’s ability to supply basic needs such as meat.
The West’s sanctions are meant to press Iran to stop enriching uranium. The West suspects Iran is aiming for nuclear weapons production.
Iran denies the charge, insisting its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes like power generation and cancer treatment.
Iran relies on crude oil exports for some 80 percent of its foreign revenue.
According to the International Energy Agency, Iran’s crude oil production has fallen steadily from nearly 4 million barrels a day in May to 2.9 million barrels a day in July. Imports of Iranian oil by major consumers plunged to 1 million barrels a day in July from 1.74 million barrels a day in June.
Ahmadinejad also repeated his previous statements that Iran is a friend to the American people and other nations – except Israel.
“We have no argument with Americans. We like them like other nations,” said Ahmadinejad. He said “ruling groups” in the U.S. have worked against relations with Iran, an apparent reference to the pro-Israel lobby.
The remarks preceded Ahmadinejad’s trip to New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly later this month.
The U.S. and Iran have had no diplomatic relations since hardliners stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held hostages there for more than a year, after Iran’s Islamic Revolution that ousted a pro-Western monarchy.
12 Comments on "Iran: West launches sanctions war against Iran"
DMyers on Wed, 5th Sep 2012 3:19 am
We can blow them off the face of the Earth, but they are not allowed to blow us off the face of the Earth. How does that work? What is the objective criterion by which this declaration is imposed?
Must be a matter of righteousness. We are righteous and they are not. Why? Because we prefer it that way, and we’re bigger than they are.
We can conclude from this that at least our national leaders graduated from kindergarten (Harvard kindergarten, no doubt).
Arthur on Wed, 5th Sep 2012 6:37 am
We in Holland could make nukes in a matter of months, ask Pakistan. We don’t. We are happy that the bullies of the world keep each other in check and as long as we concentrate on the production of cheese, wooden shoes and wafer steppers, chances are that the bullies go at each others resp throats rather than ours. Iran same story. All US intelligence orgs state that Iran is not preparing to produce nukes. I believe them.
I wonder though what the man with the intimidating name might have meant with ‘ruling groups in the US’. Indians? Mestizos? Gays? Wimmin? It is all very complicated and difficult to understand at that.
Jimmy on Wed, 5th Sep 2012 9:50 am
Wars wont stop depletion, they’ll just increase it.
DMyers on Thu, 6th Sep 2012 1:28 am
Arthur, didn’t wooden shoes lose out to Nike? Aside from that, I see your point. You would expect the intelligence org.s to be the least likely to say no nukes, unless there truly were no nukes. They may have realized that another WMD type fiasco would stretch their credibility a little too far.
If Iran is not producing nukes, and our own biased against the report agencies report it, Iran doesn’t have the nukes we continue to condemn them for having. Why does Israel continue such an aggressive posture toward a non-existent threat? It seems like the whole thing is just about stirring up another war. Just what we need!
DC on Thu, 6th Sep 2012 2:59 am
Iran has been weeks or months away from a nuclear weapon(note weapon, which is funny that a empire that has 10,000s of thousands, or its client(Israel with its least 100 would feel so threatened) since …1982 or something….lost track. But at least the world safe from all the other nations threatening us with there doomsday weapons thanks to the US of War.
You know
Libya
Iraq
Sudan
Syria(it would seem)
Somalia
And of course, Iran since ‘everyone’ says so. Everyone of course, being the US president and media.
Arthur on Thu, 6th Sep 2012 6:03 am
DMyers, American tourists in Amsterdam still insist on buying wooden shoes as they associate them with the deepest mythical origins of the American state. Think Sleepy Hollow, think Peter Stuyvesant, think the Protestant religion, think capitalism, think the Declaration of Independence, essentially a Dutch document. Holland is the true blueprint of America, not Britain.
http://www.news.wisc.edu/3049
Arthur on Thu, 6th Sep 2012 6:34 am
When Bibi Netanyahu, one of the organizers of 9/11, is angry, that is good news for the world.
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/09/05/netanyahu-angrily-breaks-up-key-cabinet-meeting-on-iran-citing-leaks/
It looks like a strike on Iran is called off for the moment.
Arthur on Thu, 6th Sep 2012 8:51 am
It looks that there are some within the US military with a rudimentary spine that are willing to resist The Lobby in it’s criminal aim of kicking off WW3:
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/09/04/dempseys-dissent/
Arthur on Thu, 6th Sep 2012 10:31 am
Oops, the Ukraine of 46 million is making overtures to SCO:
http://www.diplonews.com/feeds/free/27_August_2012_71.php
It becomes clear that the socalled Orange Revolution, organized by Soros and the rest of The Lobby, utterly failed. The US is losing it’s grip on The Heartland, the premier category in classic geopolitics. With Timoshenko in jail and Putin back in the Kremlin, Brezinskis worst fears are becoming reality.
Last week India made it clear that it needs oil from Iran, giving the finger to the boycot.
Meanwhile Scotland and Quebeq are preparing for secession and 9/11 truth is getting ever better organized. And the one trillion $ deficit is permanent. The clock is ticking in favor of major geopolitical upheavel, the largest since 1945.
James on Thu, 6th Sep 2012 11:10 pm
I fail to see how it is just the U.S. banking system can control the whole worlds worth of banks. China and Russia have banks to as well as Venezuela and other countries that don’t Like the U.S. Why can’t they go through China which is the worlds 2nd largest economy? China could act as the middle man for selling and buying Iranian products. China doesn’t have to tell anyone where it came from. This could last until the U.S. and Europe tire of their imposition of their agenda on the world. Then Iran could go back to its normal economic transactions. But, I wouldn’t put my money any U.S. financial institution again.
DC on Fri, 7th Sep 2012 2:22 am
China doesnt want to take over the role as worlds alternate banker because they know that will gain them the immediate hatred and full attention of the US corporate gangsters. Look what the US did to the EU once its Euro started become a little too popular for the US liking. the EU , Greek crisis, IRaq and Libya invaded. China knows to go that route now while the US still has some strength left will lead to nothing but grief. If the EU had kicked out the amerikan banks, and China had less to fear from direct attacks form the US, as opposed to the in-direct ones they are starting to run now, the US banks wouldnt really matter.
Arthur on Fri, 7th Sep 2012 6:00 am
It now looks like the EU will be following the path of the FED and start printing money on a grand scale, thanks to the efforts of former Goldman-Sachs bankster Draghi. Effectively northern Europe is forced to share the debt of the south.