[ April 25, 2024 ]
For years, we watched our President of the United States, Barack Obama, sanction by his inaction the crushing suppression of a people who were yearning to be free. We witnessed our President sanction mass rape, torture, and the public hangings of innocent people by an Islamic regime that our president demanded for eight years that we respect.
But now, President Trump is working to empower the Iranian people who are still marching for their freedom, despite the immense risks involved. The Islamic Republic is severely threatened, and Trump should keep up the pressure. Shame on the cowardly Europeans and others who don’t see the necessity of this, or have economic interests that prevent them from aiding the people of Iran.
“US tells world to halt all Iranian oil imports by November,” by Takashi Tsuji, Nikkei Asian Review, June 26, 2018 (thanks to Mark):
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TOKYO — The U.S. is pushing countries around the world to cut all imports of Iranian crude oil by Nov. 4 as part of economic sanctions against the Middle Eastern nation, indicating that no exceptions will be made.
Washington will work with other oil producers to ensure global oil supplies when the oil embargo takes effect, according to a senior State Department official. China, India and Japan are among the main importers of Iranian oil.
Japan has already been asked to stop importing oil produced in Iran, according to the U.S. official. This forces Tokyo to choose between supporting its longtime ally and protecting domestic energy security.
Japan, which possesses few natural resources, has maintained some diplomacy with Tehran as part of efforts to secure stable oil supplies. Iran provides about 5.5% of Japan’s oil imports, making the Middle Eastern country Tokyo’s sixth-biggest supplier. Russia ranks fifth.
Tokyo relies on the Middle East for about 90% of its oil imports, with 40% of its global total coming from Saudi Arabia and 24% from the United Arab Emirates.
Even before the U.S. lifted sanctions on Tehran during President Barack Obama’s administration, Japan imported oil from Iran on a similar scale, building a degree of friendly relations with the Persian Gulf nation.
But President Donald Trump has presented Tokyo with a dilemma. The president in early May signed an executive order reviving sanctions against Iran, which likely will include an oil embargo. The administration cited Iran’s nuclear program, which was thrown into neutral by a 2015 accord between Tehran and other nations including the U.S. Trump withdrew from that agreement last month.
Now Washington wants other nations to fall in line and ratchet up pressure on Tehran. The sanctions require global payments messaging network SWIFT to block Iranian banks from accessing the platform, severely hindering their ability to conduct transactions in dollars.
The European Union, which hopes to maintain the nuclear deal as well as business with Iran, has urged the U.S. to exempt SWIFT. The EU also has indicated it will protect companies that operate in Iran from the American sanctions….
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18 Comments
5 years ago
No big deal. Any nation, desirous of doing business. with Iran, is still allowed to do so. However, if they do business, with Iran, the do NOT do business with the USA. Sounds rather fair.
5 years ago
This could get messy fast. Things often go other than as planned.
5 years ago
The EU supports IRAN and especially Muslims. Germany sells CHEMICAL weapons to IRAN. So it will come down to, do you support MUSLIM terrorist countries? With so much invested with Muslim countries and Iran, they will ignore that request.
Trump will have the last laugh. He has the EU by the BALLS when it comes to trade. They will implode without access to OUR 20 trillion dollar economy. What’s on the table is if you tariff us and they ALWAYS do to keep our products out of the EU, then the US will respond with a tariff or the same TRADE BARRIER. We have been letting their products IN our country with little or no tax while we are clobbered and hence the huge trade deficit. Trump wants to END that and have a level playing field. Either play fair or suffer, EU!
5 years ago
5 years ago
The EU is tough on global warming but very relaxed when it comes to nuclear weapons.
Ironic, since nukes can make humanity extinct faster.
5 years ago
would save us alot of headaches.
5 years ago
China, Pakistan and others will defy the embargo.
5 years ago
Free the people of Iran from ISLAM!
5 years ago
No wonder JP is in the bag for the f’ing muslums; 190,000 f’ing muslums and counting, meanwhile the indigenous JP is suffering negative population growth.
5 years ago
I can’t believe Trump is letting this collaborating boche wench stand up and lecture him like a school kid.
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Must drive a barbaric and backward muslim savage like you crazy to know that we can kick your ass with ease. There is no such thing as a muslim men they are bottom feeders that pick on women and children and even poor animals because they are subhuman savages. Cowards the whole bunch of your sick creeps. Now be a good little boy and crawl back into what every islamic hell hole you crawled out of.
5 years ago
Saudi Arabia and other Sunni gulf states should unilaterally (outside of OPEC) form an oil production pool alliance. drastically raise their oil outputs (with US assistance*) and offer long term contracts (+/- 2 years) with an automatic 5-10% reduction on average market prices (or what ever sweet deal they can afford) to China / India / Japan / South Korea in exchange for these countries joining the US oil sanctions on Iran
Even if China refuses to join these efforts, the termination of Iranian oil sales to India, Japan and South Korea, will probably constitute a fatal blow to the Iranian economy
*The US can separately crank up production and help alleviate at least some of the global demand that is currently met with Iranian oil
5 years ago
China will reap the benefit here as they do not give a damn about anyone. However all of the Sunnis will come rushing to support this.
5 years ago
Trump should tell the countries who do business with Iran…Are you with us or against us?
