The war has already begun:
Effectively, the measures will force companies and financial institutions throughout the world to choose between the United States and Iran as their business partner.
– Ron Paul: Sanctions Against Iran Are an ‘Act of War’:
… Ron Paul told voters in Iowa that western sanctions against Iran are “acts of war” that are likely to lead to an actual war.
Paul said that Iran would be justified in responding to sanctions by blocking the Straits of Hormuz, adding that the country blocking the strategically important strait is “so logical” since they have no other recourse.
He then compared the situation to China blocking off the Gulf of Mexico to trade.
WW 3, anybody???
– Former Member Of The Russian Joint Chiefs Of Staff: Russia Is Ready to Defend Iran and Syria
– China To Protect Iran Even If It Means World War III
AND NOW …
– Obama signs executive order freezing Iran assets in US (Ynet News/AFP, Feb. 6, 2012):
Washington tightens financial vise imposed on Islamic Republic over nuclear program. New order effectively blacklists all Iranian financial institutions under US jurisdiction
US President Barack Obama ordered on Monday new sanctions against Iran, including its central bank, seeking to tighten the chokehold on Tehran’s economy as a nuclear showdown deepens.
Obama signed an executive order implementing parts of a new sanctions passed by Congress late last year. The measures block all property and interests of the Iranian government, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) and all Iranian financial institutions that come within US jurisdiction.
Previously, US institutions were required to reject, rather than block, such Iranian transactions. The measures, passed with wide majorities in Congress last year, also included a requirement for Obama to impose sanctions on foreign financial institutions that do business with the CBI or other Iranian finance firms.
That move was designed to strangle Iran’s access to foreign finance and commerce and to cripple its lucrative oil and energy industry by effectively barring foreign firms that do business with Tehran from the US financial system.
Obama’s action, however, does not implement those sanctions, but the Treasury Department warned that firms doing business with Iran “remain at risk” of US punishments.
The president has the power to issue waivers to halt the impact of such sanctions, once they come into force, every 120 days.
Senior White House officials are currently studying the measures passed by Congress to find a way to implement them that maximizes pain for Iran, but does not cause a huge spike in oil prices, for instance, that could harm the fragile US economic recovery.
Flashback:
– George Galloway: The Case Against War With Iran (Must-Listen!!!)
‘Iran Hasn’t Invaded Another Country In More Than 300 Years.’
More on Iran:
– Former Member Of The Russian Joint Chiefs Of Staff: Russia Is Ready to Defend Iran and Syria
– Iran, Gold and Oil – The Next Banksters War
– Destination Persian Gulf? Nuclear Submarine USS Annapolis And USS Momsen Enter Red Sea
– Pentagon Sends Commando ‘Mothership’ To Middle East
– EU Iran Oil Embargo Sanctions ‘Unprecedented’, Freezes Iranian Central Bank Assets
– Lawmaker: Closing Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s right
– US, Britain And France Send Warships Through Strait Of Hormuz
– EU Foreign Ministers Agree On Iranian Oil Embargo – Europe Is Shooting Itself In The Foot
– India Joins Asian Dollar Exclusion Zone, Will Transact With Iran In Rupees
– Satanist Takes Credit for Upcoming War With Iran (WW III)
– ‘Iran Signs Own Death Warrant’ (Veterans Today)
– CNN: US Funds Iran Nuclear Program (Video)
– Iran Is Not Our Enemy (Video)
– The Real Target … US Wants To ‘Close Down The Central Bank Of Iran’: Senior U.S. Official
– Iran, Russia Replace US Dollar With National Currencies In Trade Exchanges
– Defense Secretary Leon Panetta: Iran Not Building Nuclear Bombs Yet
– US Analysts: Iran’s Nuclear Fuel Rod Isn’t Military Threat (Bloomberg, Jan. 4, 2012)
– Thousands Of US Troops To Be Deployed In Israel, Joined By US Aircraft Carrier
– Obama And Netanayu Push For Attack On Iran (Video)
– American Investigative Journalist: CIA, Mossad Made Up Fairytale Terrorist Group Al-Qaeda
– Royal Navy Sends Its Mightiest Warship To Take On Iran
– Ron Paul: Sanctions Against Iran Are an ‘Act of War’:
Unwilling to back down from the growing criticism that his foreign policy would be “dangerous,” Ron Paul told voters in Iowa that western sanctions against Iran are “acts of war” that are likely to lead to an actual war.
Paul said that Iran would be justified in responding to sanctions by blocking the Straits of Hormuz, adding that the country blocking the strategically important strait is “so logical” since they have no other recourse.
He then compared the situation to China blocking off the Gulf of Mexico to trade.
– Interview With James Morris From ‘America-Hijacked.com’: Israel Pushing US Towards War With Iran
– ‘US Deploys Troops In Israel For Iran War’
– Rachel Maddow: Ron Paul Is The Only Presidential Candidate That Doesn’t Want To Start Another War!
Effectively, the measures will force companies and financial institutions throughout the world to choose between the United States and Iran as their business partner.
– Rick Santorum Wants To Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Facilities (= WW III) (NBC Video)
– CFR’s Foreign Affairs: ‘Time To Attack Iran’ (= WW III)
– Adrian Salbuchi: Imperial Overdrive: Red Alert Over Iran
– China To Protect Iran Even If It Means World War III
Flashback:
– Heads Of Mossad And Shin Bet May Have Leaked Plans For Attack On Iran, PM Netanyahu Orders An Investigation (Guardian, Nov. 3, 2011):
… the main suspects are the former heads of the Mossad and the Shin Bet, respectively Israel’s foreign and domestic intelligence agencies.Netanyahu is said to believe that the two, Meir Dagan and Yuval Diskin, wanted to torpedo plans being drawn up by him and Ehud Barak, the defence minister, to hit Iranian nuclear sites.
In January the recently retired Dagan, a hawk when he was running the Mossad, called an attack on Iran “the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard“.
“The stupidest idea I’ve ever heard“ = WW III: