{"id":283092,"date":"2016-12-07T04:52:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T03:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/warmongering-99-common-sense-0-the-senates-unanimous-renewable-of-iran-sanctions-act\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T04:52:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T03:52:55","slug":"warmongering-99-common-sense-0-the-senates-unanimous-renewable-of-iran-sanctions-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/warmongering-99-common-sense-0-the-senates-unanimous-renewable-of-iran-sanctions-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Warmongering 99 \u2013 Common Sense 0: the Senate\u2019s Unanimous Renewable of Iran Sanctions Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88887\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/12\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"picture1\" width=\"510\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/12\/Picture1.png 510w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/12\/Picture1-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Senate just renewed the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 for another ten years. President Obama has indicated that he will not veto the bill, as the margin of 99-0 makes the resolution veto proof. \u00a0The extension of the H. R. 6297 comes at the heels of Trump\u2019s election; he has already declared in no uncertain terms that he will repeal the Iran Nuclear Deal.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, successive U.S. administrations, Democrat and Republican, have imposed different forms of sanctions against the Iranian government. While sanctions remain constant, their justifications have changed over the years. The official rationale of this policy is the promotion of democracy, containment of Iran\u2019s nuclear program and their regional ambitions, and checking their support for terrorist organizations in the region and around the globe. I do not want to engage whether these allegations are true or not. Rather, I want to argue here that these justifications are merely smokescreens for promotion of war and instability in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>I do not believe that successive governments in the United States intended to foster peace and stability, but implemented \u201cmisguided\u201d policies that resulted in war and carnage in the Middle East.\u00a0 The steady rise of the significance of military-industrial complex since early 1980s and the privatization of the war machine have reconstituted American economy and redirected it toward a war-dependent regime<br \/>of production.\u00a0 This form of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/12\/06\/warmongering-99-common-sense-0-the-senates-unanimous-renewable-of-iran-sanctions-act\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate just renewed the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 for another ten years. President Obama has indicated that he will not veto the bill, as the margin of 99-0 makes the resolution veto proof. \u00a0The extension of the H. R. 6297 comes at the heels of Trump\u2019s election; he has already declared in no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-283092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}