The Us-iran Economic War

[Raza Mehkeri]

A key amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act signed by United States President Barack Obama on the last day of 2011 - when no one was paying attention - imposes sanctions on any countries or companies that buy Iranian oil and pay for it through Iran's central bank. Starting this summer, anybody who does it is prevented from doing business with the US.

This amendment - for all practical purposes a declaration of economic war - was brought to you by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), on direct orders of the Israeli Torrents of spin have tried to rationalize it as the Obama administration's plan B as opposed to letting the Israeli dogs of war conduct an unilateral attack on Iran over its supposed nuclear weapons program.

The amendment just passed may not represent the "crippling sanctions" vociferously demanded by the Israeli government. Tehran will feel the squeeze - but not to an intolerable level. Yet only those irresponsible people at the US Congress - despised by the overwhelming majority of Americans, according to any number of polls - could possibly believe they can take Iran's 2.5 million barrels of oil a day in exports off the global market with no drastic consequences for the global economy.

On the other hand, one's got to praise Tehran's balls. After a relentless campaign of covert assassinations; abductions of Iranian scientists; cross-border attacks in Sistan-Balochistan province; Israeli sabotage of its infrastructure, with viruses and otherwise; invasion of territory via US spy drones; non-stop Israeli and Republican threats of an imminent "shock and awe"; and the US sale of $60 billion of weapons to Saudi Arabia, still Tehran won't balk.

Tehran has just tested - successfully - its own cruise missiles, and in the Strait of Hormuz of all places. Then when Tehran reacts to the non-stop Western aggressive barrage, it is blamed with "acts of provocation".

The bottom line is that average Iranians will suffer - as average, crisis-hit, indebted Europeans will also suffer. The US economy will suffer. And whenever it feels the West is getting way too hysterical, Tehran will keep reserving the right to send oil prices skyrocketing.

The regime in Tehran will keep selling oil, will keep enriching uranium and, most of all, won't fall. these Western sanctions will miserably fail. But not without collecting a lot of collateral damage - in the West itself.

[ShiaBen]

Isn't the U.S. the one criticizing other countries for having dictatorships and censoring civil rights? Meanwhile this law takes a big fat piss on civil rights.

The patriot act was already bad, now this utter nonesense. Then again they use to have internment camps for the Japanese, so civil liberties were never guaranteed to citizens.

So I see this act not only endangers American civil rights, but it also endangers the rights of other nations abroad from having relations with Iran.

Sounds like an imperialist dictatorship that controls its own citizens rights as well as citizens outside of its own borders as well.

What a world we live in.....................very depressing.

[Waiting for HIM]

^^^ very nice analysis Raza.

Add to this, Iran won't blink because Iran learned some serious lessons from it's last war.

Unlike mule headed Arab dictators, Iran is not investing much military budget on infantry that is tanks, land centric weapons, and huge contingent of people army. It has it's nation to do this work.

Iran for past 20 years has been investing pretty heavily on precision guided missiles, ballistic missiles, ship sinking smart weapon systems, and space technology. Unlike 3rd world armies having hundred and thousands of personnel, it is building it's army based on cheap deterrence with smart projectile based systems. Imagine Iranian satellites housing smart missile systems floating in space 10 years down the road. Talk about 30 min. Downtime to destroy any target on any place in the globe. Iran is eyeing something far serious and far more advanced than its Arab neighbors.

Let this and other soon to come media storms be over. Iran is coming out far more stronger than others are dreaming of. It's Arab neighbors should be getting readied for long years of servitude and slavery to Shia Iranian nation as Iran soon is going to come in position of king maker in ME. Although since regime is under tutelage of a Marja, it is going to be much more humane and much more democracy enabler than arabs' current masters sitting in the west.

And all those $100 billion planes bought out from west and sitting on airbases throughout enslaved Arab lands are just that, the sitting ducks ready to be the inferno of Iranian smart missiles.

Long live the age of wilaya...

Edited January 7, 2012 by Waiting for HIM

[labbaikkhamenai]

(salam)

Japan, South Korea, China and Russia have already defied the sanctions.. Soon India will announce the same.. Iran's export to China and India is approx 21 bn dollars .... I am sure, EU would work out some other agreement with Iran ...

Regards

AA