The UK, Germany, and France took the lead on refusing to lift sanctions against Iran that are set to expire under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (that is, Obama’s nuke deal). Now the Biden administration is following with its own announcement, after Trump and Republicans expressed fury over the hostage deal that saw the US send over $6 billion to Iran. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi mocked Biden, while the Ayatollah Khamenei crowed about America’s decline.
Now, the US has announced that it is imposing more sanctions on Iran “ahead of [Mahsa] Amini’s death anniversary that saw massive protests across Iran.” Yet while the UK, Germany and France have refused to lift sanctions despite the expiration of the 2015 nuke deal, the Biden administration’s sanctions severely fall short. Whether full American sanctions will continue has not been revealed, beyond a mere headline that the “US imposes new sanctions on Iran.” Given trends with this administration, full sanctions are unlikely.
“US imposes new sanctions on Iran, hails protesters a year after Mahsa Amini’s death,” WIONews, September 15, 2023:
US President Joe Biden, on Friday (September 15), said that the United States would remain committed to supporting Iranians, a year after Mahsa Amini’s death triggered massive demonstrations, as Washington revealed fresh sanctions against “egregious” rights abusers.
Biden released a statement saying, “Today—as we remember Mahsa’s tragic death—we reaffirm our commitment to the courageous people of Iran who are carrying on her mission. They are inspiring the world with their resilience and resolve. And together with our allies and partners, we stand with them.”
“Iranians alone will determine the fate of their country, but, the United States remains committed to standing with them, including providing tools to support Iranians’ ability to advocate for their own future,” Biden added.
He then said that the United States was “announcing additional sanctions targeting some of Iran’s most egregious human rights abusers” to mark Mahsa Amini’s death anniversary….
In a separate statement, the US Treasury Department said that it imposed sanctions on more than two dozen people and entities, that it said were linked to Iran’s “violent suppression” of protests in the wake of Amini’s death and its crackdown on dissenting voices and restrictions on the internet….
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Islam should be renamed ‘The He-Man’s Women Haters Club.’ It is obvious to the untrained eye that the men exhibit such repressed homosexual leanings. Once artificial wombs are perfected, Iran and the other Islamic countries can jettison the women to countries that embrace their feminine nature.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Why? On one hand, they’re giving billions of 💵 to Iran for hostages, which is enough that Iran needs to conduct its jihad operations elsewhere. Once that’s done, what good is any new sanctions on Iran?
Besides, US is now trying to import oil from Venezuela, whose oil industry has effectively shut down and who is now just an oil reseller for Iran. So how exactly do these sanctions work?
OLD GUY says
They appear to work for those in a position to profit from them.
Walter Sieruk says
The murder malicious murder of Mahsa Amini and the vicious murder of teenage girls by those thugs in uniform who are the Islamic “police’ of that abomination of a tyranny of Iran is a most unconscionable evil of that misogyny filled Islamic tyranny of Iran.
This is a horrendous evil and isn’t an isolated incident when it comes to horrific human rights violations against girls and women in that hideous Islamic regime of Iran.
That cruel vicious murder of those young girls by the hooligan “police” of that Islamic tyranny is the result of that anti-female religion of Islam.
Now the most recent sharia violation charges against those to young actresses of not wearing their hijabs further proves the truth revealed by a scholar of Islam who revealed in her book “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islam ideology.” Furthermore, the author also exposed that `” Women is Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [1]
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, pages 171,172.
Walter Sieruk says
First, those brutal thugs who are called the “morality police” viciously had beaten the poor helpless young women, Mahsa Amini, to death. They murdered her.
That Islamic regime of Iran is so horrendously evil that it’s armed forces even murders children.
Second, the many murders of the Iranian protester by those in power in Iran in that Islamic tyrannical oppressive vicious cruel and deadly affront to all that is good decent just and right
As for Ebrahim Raisi and other higher ups, as Khamenei in that heinous tyranny I malicious orders are both despicable and unconscionable.
In addition , there is an old Latin saying that the Iranian people need to heed regarding those wicked oppressive tyrants that they exist under. That saying is ‘nil carborundum illegitimi” Which means “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
For Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei along with the other ayatollahs and mullahs who al have such terrible influence in Iran’s parliament are all indeed, bastards. Meaning they are all, as it’s been termed “Bastards of the Devil.”
For such dictators who viciously oppress the people are a reflection of the Bible’s book of Ecclesiastes which in 4:1 reads” I saw the oppressed – and they have no comforter: power was on the side of their oppressors.” [N.I.V.]
Likewise, in Proverbs 15:15 reads “All the days of the oppressed are wretched.”
Walter Sieruk says
The murder of Mahsa Amini is very sad and tragic and that horrendous evil of her being murdered is because of the oppressive vicious brutal cruel and deadly misogynistic Islamic regime of Iran.
That action of male Muslim who are officials murdering defenseless, helpless women in cold blood is a heinous and hideous has occurred before and if that murderous Islamic regime isn’t overthrown such wicked killing will continue
Another example of such callous despicable heartless anti-female evil is when a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1]
That was a clear cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “ police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240
OLD GUY says
Seems like there are always people who find away to do business or trade around the so called sanctions imposed by the American Government. Sanctions don’t work if other countries around the globe step in to provide the trade and cash that we try to withhold, and those countries or business people are standing in line to provide goods and services for their profit.