{"id":383801,"date":"2018-11-05T20:16:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T19:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=383801"},"modified":"2018-11-05T23:24:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:24:53","slug":"trumps-sanctions-against-iran-appear-to-have-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/trumps-sanctions-against-iran-appear-to-have-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Sanctions Against Iran Appear to Have Failed."},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

This morning was reported:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-05\/watch-live-pompeo-announces-iran-sanctions-waivers<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Watch Live: Pompeo Announces Iran Sanctions \u2018Waivers’<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Monday 5 November 2018 8:29AM<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Update (8:40 am ET): The following countries will receive ‘temporary’ waivers excusing them from US sanctions on Iranian oil exports.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 South Korea<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Taiwan<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Turkey<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Greece<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Japan<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i>\u2022 China<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/i>\u2022 India<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Italy<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

[\u2026 Visual shows there main importers of Iran\u2019s oil: China, India (together 50% of total), EU (20%); they\u2019re all now safe to restore to pre-Trump-sanctions levels, so that Iran will possibly exceed its current (which are based on fears they\u2019d not<\/i> get a waiver) oil-sales. Trump\u2019s sanctions, in any case, look like a failure<\/b>.]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

If there will be increasing resistance in the EU, among the nations that Trump is discriminating against (by not granting waivers), then it is even possible that Iran\u2019s oil-sales will mushroom. For example, China consumes 587.2 million tonnes of oil this year, and Iran has the world\u2019s third-largest oil-reserves.<\/span><\/a> That consumption is globally second-largest only to America\u2019s 907.6 million tonnes of oil consumption. China now can easily replace some of its other suppliers. On October 3rd, NATO\u2019s main PR agency, the Atlantic Council, bannered \u201cChina: Iran\u2019s Lifeline to Overcome Oil Sanctions\u201d<\/span><\/a>. It\u2019s not the only<\/i> \u201clifeline\u201d but it certainly is a key one, if not the<\/i> key one. Furthermore, Saudi Arabia, whose rulers want to destroy Iran<\/span><\/a>, are currently the largest supplier of oil to China<\/span><\/a>. Consequently, the ally that is the most important one of all<\/span><\/a> to the U.S. regime<\/span><\/a>, the Saud family, who own Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/a>, could end up suffering more from these U.S.-imposed sanctions than their target, Iran, will. Iran even might benefit, perhaps enormously, from Trump\u2019s sanctions. Trump clearly is stupid. His current success with the U.S. economy is based upon his $404 billion sale of U.S.-made weaponry to the Sauds<\/span><\/a>. But even that now is in jeopardy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ironically, Trump could end up benefiting Iran and hurting his key ally the Sauds. Trump is controlled not only by American billionaires but secondly by the Saud family and thirdly by the billionaires in Israel (and both<\/i> of those foreign aristocracies \u2014 as well as most of America\u2019s aristocrats \u2014 aim to destroy Iran, \u201cregime-change\u201d it and take control there like the CIA did under the Shah). Trump could end up hurting his main foreign patron, the Sauds, by pursuing the policies that he\u2019s implementing in order to serve them and the Israeli and U.S. billionaires. Trump is playing a wild game like Hitler did. In order to succeed at such a game, luck is especially important, but intellectual brilliance \u2014 something that Trump has never exhibited \u2014 is even more important. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse This morning was reported: \u2014 https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-05\/watch-live-pompeo-announces-iran-sanctions-waivers Watch Live: Pompeo Announces Iran Sanctions \u2018Waivers’ Monday 5 November 2018 8:29AM Update (8:40 am ET): The following countries will receive ‘temporary’ waivers excusing them from US sanctions on Iranian oil exports. \u2022 South Korea \u2022 Taiwan \u2022 Turkey \u2022 Greece \u2022 Japan \u2022 China \u2022 India […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":383804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,519],"tags":[3604,34,67,77,524,981,754,6257,49,40,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-383801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-newswire","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-oil","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-saudi","15":"tag-syria","16":"tag-trump","17":"tag-usa-news","18":"tag-white-house","19":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383801","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\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383834,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383801\/revisions\/383834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}