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Atlas Shrugs analyzes our options on Iran:
The New York Sun reports a committee led by the French, which includes America and other European powers, is drawing up a list of sanction options likely to influence any resolution put before the U.N. Security Council next month.
A committee led by the fwench is not encouraging, considering they have already said TALK OF SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN IS PREMATURE: FRANCE.
The list includes limiting the travel of Iranian diplomats; restricting their membership in international organizations; expelling known intelligence officers attached toIranian embassies; limiting Iran’s import of dual-use items that could be diverted to its nuclear program, and — at its most punitive — banning the export of refined petroleum to the country, which imports 40% of the refined petroleum it uses.
The travel ban is bullshit, the ban on the export of refined oil into the country is the ticket. The government heavily subsidizes the oil industry in Iran. It's a huge government stipend and they could ill afford a wild spike in refined oil prices. It would break the fiscal back of that regime and cause great civil disobedience.
Iran is not omnipotent.It's a minority regime, they are vulnerable. They are highly dependent on the world for trade, for legitimacy, for popularity at home. Their economy is a basket case as it is. If you start shutting down their ability to import, they don't even have refining capabilities. So nothing can run in Iran without imported oil from Europe so there's enough leverage to make them stop. Most of their imports are from the West are industrial goods. They need those imports to operate their factories. They already have very high unemployment. What would happen if somebody got up and said NO MORE FACTORY PIECES, NO MORE MACHINERY FOR YOU? Think of the implications of that would have inside Iran.
They are not all powerful, they are highly vulnerable. They make it appear that they are all powerful........and everyone believes them, but they are an empty shell.
I'd love to hear everyone's opinions on this.
- Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock
from The Last Crusade (thanks Michael Travis) IRAN PREPARES FOR WAR, WHILE OBAMA SLEEPS While Obama slept Ed Lasky thelastcrusade.orgWe now know that Barack Obama has sat for almost a year on the information regarding Iran’s “secret” nuclear...
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(Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council has ratcheted up sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend nuclear enrichment and other sensitive activities. Following are details about the sanctions and those already imposed by the U.N. Security Council and the...
- Email From Iran
Atlas Shrugs received the following email from Iran Re: Free Iran Hello atlasshrugs: I am e man 31 Y/O living in Iran ([deleted-Atlas] north east of iran) I am very happy that the world today know fact about iran and their peoples. We are Iranian. We...
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How To Beat Iran Without Missiles
Atlas Shrugs analyzes our options on Iran:
The New York Sun reports a committee led by the French, which includes America and other European powers, is drawing up a list of sanction options likely to influence any resolution put before the U.N. Security Council next month.
A committee led by the fwench is not encouraging, considering they have already said TALK OF SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN IS PREMATURE: FRANCE.
The list includes limiting the travel of Iranian diplomats; restricting their membership in international organizations; expelling known intelligence officers attached toIranian embassies; limiting Iran’s import of dual-use items that could be diverted to its nuclear program, and — at its most punitive — banning the export of refined petroleum to the country, which imports 40% of the refined petroleum it uses.
The travel ban is bullshit, the ban on the export of refined oil into the country is the ticket. The government heavily subsidizes the oil industry in Iran. It's a huge government stipend and they could ill afford a wild spike in refined oil prices. It would break the fiscal back of that regime and cause great civil disobedience.
Iran is not omnipotent.It's a minority regime, they are vulnerable. They are highly dependent on the world for trade, for legitimacy, for popularity at home. Their economy is a basket case as it is. If you start shutting down their ability to import, they don't even have refining capabilities. So nothing can run in Iran without imported oil from Europe so there's enough leverage to make them stop. Most of their imports are from the West are industrial goods. They need those imports to operate their factories. They already have very high unemployment. What would happen if somebody got up and said NO MORE FACTORY PIECES, NO MORE MACHINERY FOR YOU? Think of the implications of that would have inside Iran.
They are not all powerful, they are highly vulnerable. They make it appear that they are all powerful........and everyone believes them, but they are an empty shell.
I'd love to hear everyone's opinions on this.
- Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock
from The Last Crusade (thanks Michael Travis) IRAN PREPARES FOR WAR, WHILE OBAMA SLEEPS While Obama slept Ed Lasky thelastcrusade.orgWe now know that Barack Obama has sat for almost a year on the information regarding Iran’s “secret” nuclear...
- Bolton: Too Late For Sanctions
Wall Street Journal: Sanctions Won't Work Against Iran The mullahs are addressing their vulnerability to a gasoline shortage. By JOHN BOLTON Last week, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed elBaradei attempted to whitewash...
- The Dead Tree Squeaks, Meekly
(Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council has ratcheted up sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend nuclear enrichment and other sensitive activities. Following are details about the sanctions and those already imposed by the U.N. Security Council and the...
- Email From Iran
Atlas Shrugs received the following email from Iran Re: Free Iran Hello atlasshrugs: I am e man 31 Y/O living in Iran ([deleted-Atlas] north east of iran) I am very happy that the world today know fact about iran and their peoples. We are Iranian. We...
- Energy Information Administration Chief Agrees With Ahmadinejad
Iranian President Ahmadinejad says we need him more than he needs us. Guy Caruso, the EIA chief agrees with him: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A disruption in Iran's crude oil exports because of a dispute over that country's nuclear program would affect...