It looks as if the incompetent Biden administration is finally showing some sign of possibly taking action (beyond sanctioning Iran’s morality police, which was an utterly meaningless gesture) following the violent beating death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest in Tehran for improperly wearing her hijab according to regime rules.
It seems to have taken the pressure from an active news cycle for Biden to move toward some form of action, albeit an ambiguous one. Bloomberg reported that Biden “readies new sanctions targeting Iran’s oil exports,” which specifically targets a “network of companies” as “part of a broader plan to ramp up Iran sanctions.”
Trump showed leadership in sanctioning the now nuclear-threshold Islamic regime, as well as recognizing the disastrous nuclear deal for what it was. The Biden administration has shown anything but leadership.
“Biden administration imposes new sanctions on those involved in evading Iran sanctions,” by Jennifer Hansler, CNN, September 29, 2022:
The Biden administration imposed sanctions Thursday on multiple entities involved in evading sanctions on Iranian oil and petrochemicals, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced in a statement.
The new sanctions come as efforts to restore the Iran nuclear deal have once again stalled, and as the United States remains “concerned about a wide range of Iranian policies, from their nuclear program, to abuses perpetrated against their own people, to supporting Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine with drones and military training, and destabilizing activities across the region,” as the Treasury Department said in a separate statement.
“As Iran continues to accelerate its nuclear program in violation of the JCPOA, we will continue to accelerate our enforcement of sanctions on Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical sales under authorities that would be removed under the JCPOA,” Blinken said, using the acronym for the formal name of the nuclear deal: the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
“These enforcement actions will continue on a regular basis, with an aim to severely restrict Iran’s oil and petrochemical exports,” he said. “Anyone involved in facilitating these illegal sales and transactions should cease and desist immediately if they wish to avoid U.S. sanctions.”Thursday’s State Department sanctions hit China-based “Zhonggu Storage and Transportation Co. Ltd., which operates a commercial crude oil storage facility for Iranian petroleum that provides a vital conduit for the Iranian petroleum trade, as well as WS Shipping Co. Ltd., the ship manager for a vessel that has transported Iranian petroleum products,” Blinken said.
The Treasury Department also targeted other entities based in Hong Kong, Iran, India, and the United Arab Emirates.
The department noted that the sanctions “are reversible in the event of Iran’s return to JCPOA compliance.”…
gravenimage says
Biden vows to accelerate enforcement of sanctions on Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical sales
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Well, I *hope so*–but given Biden’s record with Iran so far, I won’t be holding my breath…
tgusa says
Resident Potato head might as well do it. He has already done it to us right here in the USA.
ElderlyZionist says
“The Biden administration imposed sanctions Thursday on multiple entities involved in evading sanctions on Iranian oil and petrochemicals…”
So, new sanctions on those who are evading and subverting the old sanctions. Yeah, that’ll work.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
+1 tgusa. He’s treated the citizens, especially white men, of America as
a problem to be solved instead of a
resource to be explored and developed.
joanofark06 says
Are we going through ANOTHER flip-flopper again? Oh well, we’ll see if he follows through with this.
I sure got a shock, when I read that title though, and then the article….that sure was a “WHAAAAT?” moment for me!
I’ll sure have to go through my archive/collection, because for sooo long, Buyden was kissing Iran’s butt in every way, wasn’t he? Oh, maybe he needed a new country to play with, and to keep his short attention span on, so billions of dollars are flowing toward Ukraine now, instead of Iran. (Oh look, another flip-flop! Surely Iranians didn’t put all their faith in this “man” buyden, did they? Surely, the Iranian leader spent a few mins with Buyden, and that’s the time needed, to find out that he’s a dangerous, looney toon, cuckoo!
I wonder how mad they are, about this?? I’d be worried, that he’s playing with fire, ignoring this very dangerous islamic country! I may not know every detail of that country’s government, and finances, but just being a muslim majority country, and having the knowledge of their ways, and what their “book” teaches, is enough to know, that like a threat to a female cougar and her pups, they don’t play!! Wish we had a strong leader! They’ll be one, soon enough, but it’s not one, anyone would wish for, even though we’re told about all of his amazing qualities, and his magic tricks that will be spectacular. It’s going to be so hard to watch SO MANY fall for himi, and believe everything he says (even with him saying that he’s “god”, and everyone must take his mark to show their allegiance, and there will be millions, that will lose their soul, just because of their ignorance.
Wait, that Iran president was just over here in the US, and he gave a speech. And now, a little time later, after that, Buyden breaks off the engagement with them? lol.
Wonder if those two situations, have some connection to each other? And whether, Iran has EMP capabilities? If it’s Buydens fault, for putting us in the Stone Age, I can just see every American going after him! He’s already ruined so much of this country, and is still wrecking this country, to the MAX, but if we get an EMP (if you’ve never heard that, look it up online, and then start preparing for the possibility), then, we’re doomed. Not all of us, but if the elite’s wish is to knock a few billion of us out, that would sure do it, within a year! With so many possibilities of how to die…you got hunger, thirst, gangs, and thousands of people not on their meds anymore, getting a cut that gets infected, and so many diseases that come back, because of no more sanitation, people drinking out of lakes and rivers, without purifying first, and a hundred more ways. Thousands of people, will be coming out of every city, to try to make in the country, of which they know nothing about. It’s not as easy as some would think! Anyway, enough chit chat….