The Beginning. According to Columbia University in New York City, an allegedly well-regarded school,
The United States has had sanctions on Iran for decades, with the first measures imposed against Iran in the early 1980s, responding to Tehran’s support for terrorism and extremism. Starting in 1995, these sanctions were expanded in response to continued Iranian sponsorship of terrorism and pursuit of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to include a full, comprehensive embargo on bilateral trade (imposed via E.O. 12957 and E.O. 12959 signed by President Clinton (D-Ark.)…
Building on the foregoing nonsense about Iran’s promotion of terrorism, extremism, and weapons of mass destruction, the corrupt, incompetent, illegitimate, and racist American government continued to expand sanctions on Iran.
Faced with little progress, the United States then went further.
…In 2010, the United States imposed new, secondary sanctions that increased the pressure on Iran by compelling foreign companies and banks to withdraw from Iran. In 2012, these efforts were matched by pressure on the customer that bought Iranian oil to reduce their purchases by significant amounts every 180 days or face losing access to the United States. The result was a 1.4 million barrel per day decline in Iranian exports relative to pre-sanctions levels... Since that time, both the Obama and Trump Administrations continued to implement these sanctions, including through new designations of illicit Iranian actors and their foreign counterparts.
Naturally enough, the Zionist-controlled U.S. government ignored Israel’s unknown and unknowable nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Unlike Iran, the Apartheid Entity has never signed and continually refuses to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. And the United States ignores its own law on aid to nuclear states which decline to subscribe to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 was amended by the Symington Amendment (Section 669 of the FAA) in 1976. It banned U.S. economic, and military assistance, and export credits to countries that deliver or receive, acquire or transfer nuclear enrichment technology when they do not comply with IAEA regulations and inspections. This provision, as amended, is now contained in Section 101 of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA).
According to a 2023 report by the Congressional Research Service (an organization providing information to Congress):
Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II...To date, the United States has provided Israel $158 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance and missile defense funding. At present, almost all U.S. bilateral aid to Israel is in the form of military assistance; from 1971 to 2007, Israel also received significant economic assistance.
The goal, of course, is both to strengthen Israel and to make the Iranian people so miserable that they will overthrow their own government, permitting the United States and Israel to impose a puppet regime, just as was done with the brutal and repressive Shah in 1953.
But the Sanctions Have Failed. During my nine days in Iran, traveling throughout Tehran with side trips to Shiraz and Kerman, I saw well-filled shops, well-dressed people, and horrendous day-long traffic jams. No beggars were, in my view, evident. Everyone was well fed. Flights I took were full, with every last seat taken.
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