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Iran: We’ve successfully circumvented western sanctions
State TV on Sunday broadcast comments by Rostam Ghasemi that the industry was in “bad shape” about two months ago due to the oil embargo by the West, “but we left the bottleneck behind, almost.”
Ghasemi also said that Iran has set up its own insurance for ships that carry its oil after Western companies refused to cover them.
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Sanctions don’t matter. They’ll be persuaded to do the right thing just by sheer force of persuasion and charm once they encounter The Won. I read so in the NYT.
#hopenchange #ObamaVotersBelieveAnything
SoRight on December 23, 2012 at 5:16 PM
We have stealthfully circumvented your sanctions, so we decided to announce it to the world.
DFCtomm on December 23, 2012 at 5:17 PM
They show Obama a big finder because they can.
Schadenfreude on December 23, 2012 at 5:21 PM
finger
Schadenfreude on December 23, 2012 at 5:21 PM
Don`t worry, John Kerry wil fix this.
ThePrez on December 23, 2012 at 5:43 PM
I still can’t believe that Iran totally disregarded those sternly-worded letters!
RoadRunner on December 23, 2012 at 5:48 PM
Enlightenment
Schadenfreude on December 23, 2012 at 5:49 PM
Reporting for duty!!!-Kerry
UGH.
di butler on December 23, 2012 at 5:53 PM
I am not aware of a single time in history where economic sanctions have ever been effective. Not once. We have had them on North Korea for 60 years. They are a way for politicians to LOOK like they are doing something without actively doing anything at all.
crosspatch on December 23, 2012 at 6:16 PM
There are only two times in US history that sanctions have done jack squat, so I don’t at all blame you for saying they never worked.
The first instance is against Cuba; more particularly, after the USSR was no longer around to prop them up. Castro became a puppet without a master and if it wasn’t for American tourism he’d have nothing at all to sell. Not counting their pathetic sugar crop, BTW.
Second instance is against South America, which has the additional distinction of being an even more rare multinational sanction that worked. In that instance we were sanctioning the admittedly evil practices of apartheid in favor of supporting black terrorists.
MelonCollie on December 23, 2012 at 11:18 PM