Iran Sanctions - Unprecedented Impact.

[Al-Mufeed]

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/1005-trade/261041-obama-signs-order-implementing-tougher-iran-sanctions

Obama signs order implementing tougher sanctions on Iran

By Erik Wasson - 10/09/12 03:58 PM ET

President Obama on Tuesday signed an executive order tightening sanctions on Iran over its nuclear-enrichment program.

The order implements a new Iran sanctions law enacted in August.

The White House said the administration’s actions “have created unprecedented pressure on Iran’s economy.”

“The onus is on Iran to abide by its international obligations with respect to its nuclear program. If the Iranian government continues its defiance, there should be no doubt that the United States and our partners will continue to tighten our sanctions and impose increasing consequences,” National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a statement.

Iran policy has become a focus of the presidential election this year. During a speech Monday at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., GOP candidate Mitt Romney repeated accusations that Obama is too soft on Iran and too distant from Israel, which views Iran’s nuclear program as a threat to its existence.

Romney has called on Obama to draw a clearer red line to warn Iran that the United States will not tolerate it gaining nuclear weapons. Critics of this view warn that it could bind the U.S. and force an armed intervention.

The Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act expands the list of those targeted by Iran sanctions, closes loopholes and enhances penalties.

Those targeted include anyone who works in Iran's petroleum sectors or provides goods, services, infrastructure, or technology to Iran's oil and natural gas sector, those who insure or re-insure investments in Iran's oil sector and those who transport refined petroleum to Iran. It also targets Iranian and Syrian officials involved in human-rights abuses.

This law also tries to stop Iran from repatriating revenue from oil, to further destabilize its currency and make more sanctions mandatory.

Obama and Romney will answer a mix of domestic and foreign policy questions during their second debate, next Tuesday in Hempstead, N.Y. The third presidential debate, dedicated to foreign policy, is scheduled for Oct. 22 in Boca Raton, Fla.

[hasanhh]

Assalam Alaikum. Yes I know the nuclaer programme is just an excuse. Still nuclaer energy is not a good idea, in fact it is a dangerious polutant with long term consequences for the planet and better be outlawed. My point is that Iran could do something much more better, renewable and be a real cutting edge for the developing world in terms of clean and cheap energy pushing the world out of the clutches of those multi-nationals who depend on the dirty energy status qua.

Wasalam.

(salam)

I was watching DeutscheWelle last year.

I was/still am for nuclear energy. BUT, an engineer being interview said something I had not heard before: that only 1% of all spent fuel is being reprocessed.

Huh?

For older readers, we were always told feul was being reprocessed. So we have been lied to for 60 years.

What the nuclear industry really needs is a reworking. The old/current way is what is creating the problems.

[Salehe]

(salam)

I was watching DeutscheWelle last year.

I was/still am for nuclear energy. BUT, an engineer being interview said something I had not heard before: that only 1% of all spent fuel is being reprocessed.

Huh?

For older readers, we were always told feul was being reprocessed. So we have been lied to for 60 years.

What the nuclear industry really needs is a reworking. The old/current way is what is creating the problems.

Only 1% !! The terror of the situation is that almost everyone is pushed to compete to survive at the cost of destroying our mother, this precious earth without which we wouldn't be able to experience life and Creation.

vasalaam

Edited October 12, 2012 by Salehe

[hasanhh]

Only 1% !! The terror of the situation is that almost everyone is pushed to compete to survive at the cost of destroying our mother, this precious earth without which we wouldn't be able to experience life and Creation.

vasalaam

(salam)

Yes, 1%. I was dumbfounded. Reprocessing is something we were always told was happening. Come to think about it, the only reprocessing I have ever heard about is in France.

A highly toxic element, plutonium, is the most serious threat. With uranium I personally do not think it is as threatening. To give a geological example, in South Africa is a very high concentration of U from the Earth's early history where, according to what I read, the concentration was high enough to have caused a "nuclear explosion" way-back-then.

I do think the planet is being slowly poisoned. When Thor Hyardal (sp?) of Kon Tiki fame made a different voyage to the Carribean(?) he later testified before the US Congress that he saw untreated solid human waste floating in the middle of the Atlantic. That is when global population was 3 Billion.

What disgusts me though, is the time and reputations being wasted on junk science like "global warming" so a self-selected group has a cause celeb .

Yesterday or the day before, one of the American nutworks carried the "story" about oyster larve not maturing properly. Allegedly, because so much carbon dioxide is being absorbed by the oceans these larve cannot form shells.

:lol:

The reason oceans absorb CO2 is because calcium ions Ca+ washed out from the land mass capture it to form calcium carbonate and then settle to the ocean floor or acquired by the oysters themselves.

If his oysters are not forming shells, then this oyster farmer has too many larve competing for a fixed availability of calcium for/within a given area.

If these self-appointeds really want to do something, they can start by cleaning up the plastic in mid-Pacific. They can develop better or less toxic industrial methods, and other constructive endeavors rather than trying to show-off for themselves by trying to panic the public.

[Al-Mufeed]

Iran arrested 16 people Thursday, accusing them of contributing to the currency crisis plaguing the country that has triggered protests in the streets.

Those arrested "were the main players in the recent fluctuations in the foreign currency market," the Tehran Judiciary said in a statement.

The move came a day after riot police worked to disperse protests in the capital's main bazaar and nearby streets. Demonstrators chanted slogans opposing firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and decrying the skyrocketing cost of basic goods.

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The rial's plummet to historic lows is the result of international sanctions, imposed largely by the United States and the European Union in an effort to pressure Iran to sit down for talks on its nuclear program.

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Ahmadinejad and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have assailed the sanctions, insisting "the enemy" will fail in its efforts and is hurting the Iranian people rather than the government.

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The government did not identify the 16 arrested Thursday. In a written statement, the judiciary said they "had used an atmosphere of psychological war created by the enemy" and colluded with "certain domestic and foreign groups" to exacerbate conditions."

They traded extensively in "smuggled" currencies "outside of the banking network" in order to increase the value of foreign currencies and disturb the public, the judiciary claimed, adding that they "amassed illegal fortunes."

One of the accused had $300 million going through a bank account, the statement said.

Iran warned that others "are being accused as well and will be dealt with soon."

[hasanhh]

Iran arrested 16 people Thursday, accusing them of...

(salam)

These "protests" remind me of Lebanon...where the high schoolers started signaling each other to all go down to the square to rally.

These are not spontaneous protests...look at the ages. They are revelers that quickly assemble to confront police. I do not consider them anything but a threat to public order and safety.

If the ruling mullahs want to know what is going on in the markets, they can ask their grandchildren to go slow-shopping. Then come back and report on the "complaints".

[Haji 2003]

Story about how sanctions can be overcome ...

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I am not taking anyone’s side here, just sharing a fascinating war story. When the West cut off spare parts for Iran’s American-made F-14 Tomcats (the world's most advanced fighter at the time), they expected the Iranian Air Force to ground within weeks. Iran created the Self-Sufficiency Jihad (Jahad-e Khodkafayi) & started cross-breeding Western airframes with whatever tech they could get. They took American Hawk SAMs, rewired them, & fired them from F-14s, something Western engineers said was impossible cos the radars were totally incompatible. It actually worked & scored kills. Wild ingenuity under embargo.

https://x.com/Fintech03/status/2033031623218962814

 

[realizm]

9 hours ago, Haji 2003 said:

Story about how sanctions can be overcome ...

https://x.com/Fintech03/status/2033031623218962814

 

Salam

My father used to tell me how in the 1960s, the Iranians from his university would hack phone booths several times, even by dismantling them and bringing them into their campus to study them and find everytime a new way to call overseas for free, using a single coin. 

Edited March 15 by realizm

[Haji 2003]

Iran oil revenues up due to war

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Iran is likely to be earning more than $140mn a day from selling oil as prices surge and the US turns a blind eye to its shipments to avoid further destabilising crude markets that have been shaken by the conflict.

https://www.ft.com/content/35e815ef-46f3-4169-a39d-cc6bafdfbc1c