We can only hope that despite the immense aid given to this bloodthirsty regime by Barack Obama, it will soon be relegated to the dustbin of history, thanks to the new sanctions and increasing unrest within Iran from Iranians who want freedom.
“Iranian jobs go as U.S. sanctions start to bite,” by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, Reuters, November 19, 2018:
LONDON (Reuters) – Tamnoush, an Iranian company that makes fizzy drinks, has shut down its production line after 16 years and laid off dozens of workers. It was facing massive losses as U.S. sanctions pushed up the price of imported raw materials.
“All our 45 workers are jobless now. The men are driving taxis and women are back to being housewives,” said CEO Farzad Rashidi.
Reuters interviews with dozens of business owners across Iran show hundreds of companies have suspended production and thousands of workers are being laid off because of a hostile business climate mainly caused by new U.S. sanctions.
The Iranian rial has fallen to record lows and economic activity has slowed dramatically since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the big powers’ nuclear deal with Tehran in May.
He imposed sanctions directed at purchases of U.S. dollars, gold trading, and the automotive industry in August. Iran’s vital oil and banking sectors were hit in November.
“We have lost around five billion rials ($120,000 at the official rate) in the last few months, so the board decided to suspend all activities for as long as the fluctuations in the currency market continue. It is stupid to keep driving when you see it’s a dead end,” Rashidi said.
The country has already experienced unrest this year, when young protesters angered by unemployment and high prices clashed with security forces. Official projections indicate unrest could flare up again as sanctions make the economic crisis worse.
Four days before parliament fired him August for failing to do enough to protect the jobs market from sanctions, labor minister Ali Rabiei said Iran would lose a million jobs by the end of year as a direct result of the U.S. measures.
Unemployment is already running at 12.1 percent, with three million Iranians unable to find jobs.
A parliamentary report in September warned that rising unemployment could threaten the stability of the Islamic Republic….
Ren says
Rising unemployment stemming from U.S. sanctions “could threaten the stability of the Islamic Republic”
GOOD!
fred says
If it’s working…good…really frekin good….
Renate says
The sooner Iran is destabilized, the better. That regime has been a pain in the neck since 1979.
Buraq says
We were told that the 21st Century would herald new types of warfare: cyber attacks, spreading viruses or nuclear weapons, for example. But nobody reckoned on tearing up your enemy’s economy and watch it fall apart without firing a shot!
Trump is a true innovator! Not a soldier, airman or sailor lost, and yet the swivel eyed Mullahs in Tehran are becoming the rulers of an economic dust bowl. The 1929 Wall Street Crash is going to look like a picnic compared to Iran’s economic problems that are on the way.
peter says
Yes indeed .Kudos to Trump and his team
SweetOlBob says
Buraq:
Don’t forget to thank “Jimmah Cartuh” for deposing the Shah of Iran because he was a tyrant and not a Southern Baptist. He laid the way for the first spittle coated beard wearing, backward, islamic, goon to take power and turn a modern nation into a backward S-hole ! “Jimmah’s” legacy continues with lots of help from our own little muslim fraud, obama*.
*Lower Case intentional
Angemon says
What’s the worst thing it could happen, the regime being toppled by jihadis? Oh, wait…
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mr spencer, you are only expressing wishful thinking,Iran is stable, its economy is healthy and booming. many powerful economies like China, EU, Russia, Turkey India and other Bric countries have refused to comply with that idiot unilateral sanctions by armed robber evil United States to isolate Iran . It is rather the economy of the evil United States under savage mad devil Trump which is in trouble. Check current economic indices of the evil United States to find out what i am saying.
Elisha says
Sahih Bukhari 73.224 Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “The most awful name in Allah’s sight on the Day of Resurrection, will be a man calling himself Malik Al-Amlak (King of kings).”
Here’s why allah is trembling in his desert sandals:
These kings have one purpose: to yield their power and authority to the beast. They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones. – Revelation 17:13-14
He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God. The armies of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and pure, follow Him on white horses. And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God, the Almighty. And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: King of kings and Lord of lords. – Revelation 19:13-17
Elisha says
Game, set match to JESUS CHRIST, the ONLY begotten Son of God. Tell me:
1. Why is it that allah could “perfectly preserve” the quran but not the Bible? (Keep in mind that no “uncorrupted copy” of the Bible has ever been produced to date!)
2. If Christianity is “false”, why did allah start Christianity by tricking people into believing Jesus was crucified?
Calling Christianity false is a logical fallacy in light of this islamic belief. These two facts are undeniable … You MUST believe, as a muslim, that Jesus was sentenced to death. What was the charge/crime? Blasphemy!
For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself EQUAL WITH GOD. – John 5:18
The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, BEING A MAN, MAKE YOURSELF OUT TO BE GOD.” – John 10:33
The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law HE OUGHT TO DIE BECAUSE HE MADE HIMSELF OUT TO BE THE SON OF GOD.” – John 19:7
The Pharisees understood He was calling Himself God, why can’t you understand this as well?
Again the high priest was questioning Him, and saying to Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?” And Jesus said, “I am; and you shall see THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, and COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.” Tearing his clothes, the high priest said, “What further need do we have of witnesses? “YOU HAVE HEARD THE BLASPHEMY; how does it seem to you?” And they all condemned Him to be DESERVING OF DEATH. – Mark 14:61-64
The Jews KNEW that ONLY God rides upon the clouds, THAT is why they killed Him! It’s ALL OVER the Old Testament!
“I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN, One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was presented before Him. – Daniel 7:13
The Son (Jesus Christ) came up to the Ancient of Days (the Father). The oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the LORD IS RIDING ON A SWIFT CLOUD and is about to come to Egypt; The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence, And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them. – Isaiah 19:1
He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; HE MAKES THE CLOUD HIS CHARIOT; He walks upon the wings of the wind. – Psalm 104:3
“Behold, he goes up like clouds, And his chariots like the whirlwind; His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!” – Jeremiah 4:13
Jesus says He EXISTED before the world began. Until you understand the nature of God existing as three persons, you will understand nothing.
Jesus Says here He is God “I AM”, just like He did when He said He EXISTED before the world. Only God can claim this:
Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”
And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ” Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.’ – Exodus 3:13-15
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”
Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.” – John 8:56-58
Jesus has TWO natures: FULLY human and FULLY God:
In the beginning was the Word, and THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men … AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. – John 1:1-4,14
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery TO BE EQUAL WITH GOD, BUT MADE HIMSELF OF NO REPUTATION, TAKING THE FORM OF A BONDSERVANT, AND COMING IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN. AND BEING FOUND IN THE APPEARANCE AS A MAN, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. – Philippians 2:5-11
Old Testament:
Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. – Genesis 19:24 [the Lord (Jesus Christ) from the Lord (the Father)]
And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.” – Zechariah 12:10 [The first sentence is God the Son Jesus speaks about the Holy Spirit and His future crucifixion. The second sentence is God the Father speaking about His Son]
The Trinity in the FIRST LINE: Holy Spirit, Father and Son!
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound” – Isaiah 61:1
The Belief in Jesus as God before Nicea – Dr Michael Heiser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Ry_uEMG-k
I will leave you with this “checkmate” question from Jesus:
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”
They said to Him, “The Son of David.”
He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying:
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool” ’? [Psalm 110:1]
If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?” And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore. – Matthew 22:41-46
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Elisha, that doctrine of begotten son of God and Godman came from paganism of mithraism inspired by the satan you call Holy Spirit. you and Satan god the cursed one will be casted into hottest lake of hellfire burning forever and you will be swimming inside the most horrible bad smelly excrements being emitted by the satan you call Holy Spirit. Beware !!
James Lincoln says
Ibrahim itace muhammed,
Sounds like you love Iran.
If you don’t already live there, please move there and enjoy their booming economy.
Angemon says
“Iran is stable, its economy is healthy and booming.”
Got the perfect nickname for you – Tehran Tom…
“It is rather the economy of the evil United States under savage mad devil Trump which is in trouble.”
Citation needed.
“Check current economic indices of the evil United States to find out what i am saying.”
How about, instead, you lay it pout for us – please do a factual, source-based comparison between economic indicators of both the US and Iran, as opposed to simply say “Iran’s economy is booming, US’s economy is in trouble”.
Anne Smith says
Three cheers for President Trump.
Just hope he can keep going and wish we had a PM like him, looking after his own country and not cowtowing to everyone else.