Protesters carrying away a comrade shot during protests in Shiraz, Iran. November 17, 2019 Protesters carrying away a comrade shot during protests in Shiraz, Iran. November 17, 2019
Tehran’s violence against demonstrators is the worst in 40 years. Yet Europeans chose this week to double down on an effort to evade U.S. sanctions.
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The news of what amounts to a case of mass murder on the part of the Islamist rulers of Iran has trickled out slowly due to the regime’s decision to create an Internet blackout throughout the country. But as corroborating accounts have become known in the West, the scope of the killings can no longer be denied.
But perhaps just as shocking as the deaths ordered by the clerics who rule Iran is the reaction from Western Europe. The United States has strongly condemned the violence and vowed to step up the pressure it has exerted to force the Iranian regime to both renegotiate the nuclear deal it struck with the West and also change its behavior towards both its own people and those of neighboring countries. Europe, however, is not only signaling its lack of interest in the unrest inside Iran; it is also doubling down on efforts to keep Western cash flowing to Tehran in order for the regime to continue to maintain its hold on power.
Indeed, just as the confirmation of the scale of the violence became clear, six more countries joined a new consortium aimed at evading U.S. sanctions on the rogue regime. Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden announced their decision to participate in the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges, or INSTEX. The group, whose founding members are Great Britain, France and Germany, is an attempt to create a pathway to trade with Iran based on the barter of goods and services. In theory, these countries will now be able to carry on trade with Tehran without the use of U.S. dollars or involvement with the U.S. financial system.
That sounds innocuous, but its real purpose is to allow Iran to go on selling oil. Participants say they are doing this to preserve the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that was sold to the world as a way to prevent Tehran from getting a nuclear weapon. But since it merely postponed an Iranian bomb and made such a catastrophe eventually inevitable, these excuses don’t pass muster.
What Europe wants is not a way to preserve peace or to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon. What it wants is a way to keep profiting from a relationship with a brutal regime that is not only oppressing its own people, but remains the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.
The venal nature of this scheme is not in question. European nations and businesses expected President Barack Obama’s pact with Iran to result in a Tehran gold rush for entrepreneurs and investors. They had no interest in nonproliferation or the danger that Iran’s quest for regional hegemony posed to the Middle East, or even the way it ruthlessly used terrorism to pursue its goals around the globe. What they wanted was a way to profit from a market that had been largely ignored by the West since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
But the gold rush never materialized, in large measure because many investors were rightly wary of becoming economic hostages to the ayatollahs. No investment—let alone the personal safety and freedom of those involved in trade with Iran—could be considered safe in a country where the rule of law doesn’t exist.
Just as important, U.S. sanctions that had been passed by Congress remained in place, even if the Obama administration was no longer enforcing them.
Once Trump pulled America out of the nuclear deal, he began reimposing and tightening sanctions that posed a particular challenge to Europeans, who were still lusting after Iran’s cash. Though Obama and his media “echo chamber” had claimed that the United States could never successfully enforce sanctions on Iran by itself without the permission of Europe, Trump quickly debunked that prediction. Faced with a choice of cutting off ties with the largest economy in the world or chasing a profit in Tehran, most have wisely decided not to mess with the Americans.
Western Europeans hope to evade U.S. sanctions with a barter system, though few financial experts think that it can work effectively to provide Iran with a reliable conduit to sell their oil.
Even if it was a viable option, what the Europeans are doing is essentially sending money to the same people, including the IRGC that also runs much of the Iranian economy, who are killing people in the streets and financing terrorists. Like the nuclear deal, which led to the United States sending Iran planeloads of palettes of cash and other foreign exchange, INSTEX is a lifeline for a tyrannical regime. The nuclear pact enriched and empowered the ayatollahs. INSTEX seeks to keep them in power by the same means, enabling them to go on shooting and torturing their own people, while threatening other nations like Israel.
Many supporters of Obama’s deal who are critical of Trump’s decision often like to pose as human-rights advocates when it comes to criticizing Israel, yet they are strangely silent about the atrocities going on in Iran. Perhaps just as outrageous as that hypocrisy is the willingness of supposedly enlightened Western Europe to try to prop up the Islamist regime with INSTEX just at the time when decent people should be doing all they can to isolate it.
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Anthony Silvio
4 years ago
Of course Europe is there, and every where there’s money to be made. Especially from the blood spilled by U.S. troops or Israeli Jews !! Easy money from criminal regimes like Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea are the FUEL needed to continue their Socialist Systematic Fraud !!
we need to bail on the eu take our troops out of there countries and kick the un to the curb
Jay Wizzy
4 years ago
If you observe the events in Europe since the pro-Muhammadist two world-wars, one recognizes a scheme of censorship & sabotage of education, knowing that sabotage of education is the key you lock out the free mind with or lock the mind of the free & conscious people into a prison & tyranny of Sharia.
This sabotage & censorship of education unveiled a Muhammadist scheme to portray Muhammadism as benign, apolitical religion absent of any political tendencies.
America’s money subsidized the new secret Muhammadist Germany & now Germany’s money dealings continue to strengthen Muhammadism.
Turkey’s ally Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark…
It’s the usual suspects.
Research Jacob Schiff funding Russo Japanese War, also funding Trotsky, Lenin. Russia been destroyed, cannot protect the Armenians, Serbs from Muslim Turkey.
Always like how Enver Pasha leads an army of 90000 that froze attacking the Russians. Battle of Sarikamish
Kuffar
4 years ago
France Germany and the UK have their money grubbing hands out to the mullahs and will wade through the blood to get a piece of the aktion. Anything for a buck.
INCLUDING SAN ANTONIO, TX, USA IN NORTH CENTRAL SAN ANTONIO, TX OFF WURZBACH CLOSE TO I10 FOLKS! IT WILL BE LIKE THAT IN 15 YEARS, GUARANTEED! OUR MAYOR HERE IS A JOKE GLOBALIST AND PRO-SHARIA APOLOGIST! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL RIGHTISTS!
knightsstrength
4 years ago
Something very wrong with the Nordic people to back Islam
The Viking Slave Trade with Islam. Sorry I could not give you the video I wanted to show as YouTube took it down saying it violated their terms of Service. It was called Islams Role in the Viking & Atlantic Slave Trades.
This one will have to do https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ozAPmRun8GU
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF! THE NAZIS HONORED THE NORDICS WHO ARE DESCENDANTS OF THE VIKING SLAVE TRADERS WHILE ALWAYS FAVORING MUSLIMS IN BOTH WORLD WARS AND EVEN TODAY VIA THE EU! THE KHAZARS WHO REPRESENT ASHKENAZIC JEWS WEREN’T AND AREN’T WELL LIKED AMONG NORDICS OR EASTERN EUROPEANS! THE RUSSIANS REPRESENTING THE SLAVICS ENSLAVED BY THE NORDICS ARE MILITARILY ALERT TODAY WHO COMPETE WITH THE EU WHICH CENSORS VIDEOS VIA U-TUBE! WOW! COOL VIDEO! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL RIGHTISTS!
Yes he did. If people dig for the information it is out there. Even with WW1 Pope Pius X encouraged war with Austria to go to war with Serbia. The Catholic Church has alaways been at war with non Roman Catholics, even today as it is more silent.
Gavrilo Princip was a member of the Young Bosnians, Black Hand and one must look at the groups he belonged to than him. One forgets the Yugoslavian King and Greek King assassinated. Franz Joseph I of Austria hated Arch Duke Ferdinhand marrying a Slav. Was lots of tensions between Serbia (Orthodox Christian) and Austria prior to WW1
Austria also created the first Muslim Bosnian Army
This is many do not know
Adolf Hitler Quote I am Catholic
I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.
– Adolf Hitler, to General Gerhard Engel, 1941
Fact is Hitler was never excommunicated even in modern times for anything he did although the Roman Catholic Curia judged the cadavers of some Popes they didn’t like and actually convicted them in the Middle Ages! The link, http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/guettee_thepapacy.pdf can objectively show that the Orthodox have plenty of historical evidence to support their case against the Papal institution! Also, since I think it is fair, the link, https://www.tentmaker.org/books/MartinLuther-HitlersSpiritualAncestor.html will show you that Lutheranism had problems too! Luther murdered Anabaptists and was not a nice man! Happy Holidays to all rightists!
Lots of Churches show their true side allowing Islam prayer into Chrurches and most Western Churches are break away from the Roman Catholic Church.
Ari
4 years ago
The EU seems to be indifferent on the threat of Iran. The Finnish MSM has told little or nothing about INSTEX. An Al Jazeera TV news presenter
knightsstrength
4 years ago
The Viking invasion of England Battle of Hastings.
To me the Viking invasion happened because of Catholicism, but to look it up. Must not forget William was Catholic flew the Popes standard, used Catholic Crusaders. One Crusade not recorded. http://www.normaninvasion.info/viking-invasion.htm
time to bail on the eu and let them become mooslum like they want f them
Worsethanitlooks
4 years ago
Remember, all of these countries are leading the courageous fight against climate change and Israeli settlements. They have a simple goal. Lower the temperature on earth by one degree and eliminate Israel. God bless them all!
Reality Check:
They’re desperate for money, their economies are teetering, and their socialist policies are bankrupting them. The elitist scum that run these countries could not care less if innocent Iranians are murdered by their Islamo-nazi govt.
IT STARTED WHEN THE EU/USA USED NATO TO ROLL OVER SERBIA/YUGOSLAVIA IN THE 1990’S FOLKS ON BEHALF OF BOSNIAN JIHADIS! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF THE REPUBLICAN RINOS SO CONCERNED ABOUT IRANIAN CIVILIANS NOW HAD GIVEN A DA-N ABOUT THE BOMBING OF SERBIAN CITIES AND ORTHODOX CHURCHES THEN! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL RIGHTISTS!
mtman2
4 years ago
If these Iranian Mullah Gouls easily murder + torture their own people realize what they intend to Americans, Israel and Euro-peons when they get a chance
Defence Man
4 years ago
As each month slips by l become more and more distrusting of politicians, as they appear they will do anything for their personal enrichment and to hell with their own people ! Money is the root of evil and politicians lean over backwards to prove it .
John Acord
4 years ago
Trump’s policies towards Iran are working, the regime is tottering, it is starving, the people are rising, soon the army will turn on the mullahs. Hundreds of thousands will die horrible deaths, but the Resistance must be supported, the mad mullahs crushed and the Pahlavi’s restored. Beginning with Iran the paradigm of the 21st Century must be the annihilation of Islam.
Cauc-Asian Patriot
4 years ago
THE USA IS RIGHT TO DITCH THE OBAMA’S UNEFORCEABLE NUKE DEAL BUT I WILL PLAY THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE HERE LITERALLY! IS IT REALLY IN OUR U.S. FINANCIAL INTEREST TO KEEP PLAYING THE SANCTIONS GAME WITHOUT EUROPEAN SUPPORT ON THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT OUR U.S. DEM-WIT PARTY SANCTIONED INTO EXISTENCE WHEN WE AMERICANS BETRAYED THE SHAH WHO WAS OUR BETRAYED FRIEND? WHY DON’T WE GET RUSSIA INVOLVED IN COMING UP WITH A NEGOTIATED SOLUTION AS THE RUSSIANS HAVE A LOT MORE INFLUENCE WITH THE IRANIANS NOW THAN WE DO AND REALLY DON’T LIKE THE IDEA OF IRAN GOING NUCLEAR EITHER? THE HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAN ARE TERRIBLE BUT WE AMERICANS SUPPORT THE SAUDI ARABIAN SHARIA STATE TOO! HUMAN RIGHTS AND ISLAM REALLY DON’T MIX ALL THAT MUCH!
ONE THING WE AMERICANS ARE DOING IS HURTING THE POWER OF OUR PETRO-DOLLAR CAUSING INFLATION AND HIGHER GAS PRICES IN THE USA! HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW THINGS KEEP GOING UP FOLKS? THE OBAMA’S DEFICIT CAUSED THE BULK OF THE INFLATION BUT IS AGGRAVATED BY THE WEAKENING OF THE U.S. PETRO-DOLLAR SINCE WE FOOLISHLY DITCHED THE SILVER STANDARD THAT WE AS A NATION COULD CONTROL, YEARS AGO AS PART OF SETTING UP THE FEDERAL RESERVE OVER A NATIONAL BANK OF THE USA THAT WOULD STILL BE IN EXISTENCE IF ALEXANDER HAMILTON HAD HAD HIS WAY! DEM-WIT PARTY FOUNDER & NATIVE AMERICAN GENOCIDAL MURDERER, ANDREW JACKSON AND HIS TWIN GLOBALIST IDIOT, WOODROW WILSON SAW TO THAT! HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON RIGHTISTS!
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