US sanctions on Iran directed at people, not the government

By Stephen Lendman

I always want to stress one thing when the US or any other country imposes sanctions unilaterally on another country, the US by far is the most guilty, probably more guilty than all other nations in the world combined. International Law, the UN Charter is very clear. Only the Security Council can impose sanctions legally. When individual nations do it against others, or entities or individuals, it's an illegal act. It should be null and void and not respected by any of the country.

Well, when the US does it, most other countries go along with it to their shame. I mean the US bullies, bribes, whatever, to get other countries to go along with its policies.

The US time and again has imposed so many sanctions on Iran in recent years going back, my goodness, I think back throughout most of the post-1979 period, but the most heavily in more recent years, especially since the Trump people came around.

I literally believed that there was nothing more in Iran that the US could impose sanctions on, and neither the nation or entities or individuals, nothing, nothing. They've already sanctioned everything. And they always surprise me. They come up with something else.

And the reasons they give are phony. They make them up, a pretext with no credibility behind them. So they keep inventing these things for more charges against Iran and proving nothing, never any evidence presented to prove accusations that are made because no evidence exists.

The reason behind US sanctions on Iran and other countries on its target list for regime change are not so much the nations, the entities, or the individual sanction but they are directed at the people. It gets the ordinary people of these countries to create hardships for them, to make them suffer, hoping or believing that if they do this and if they hurt them enough, they will turn against their government to get a new government that will make life easier for them. Every time the US has tried this, it's done it many, many times -- I've written about this so often -- every time the US does this it fails.

Well, I forget who said it but somebody said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and failing every time but continuing to do it endlessly. US policymakers are insane.

The nation I grew up long ago no longer exists. And I've written about that too. The US is not only a nation in decline but it may go down in flames and maybe take everybody else with it.

US sanctions are illegal. US actions are illegal. US wars are illegal. Virtually everything it does is illegal. Wars by hot and other means. Sanctions are war by other means. And the US wages war on its own people. There are people, millions of people in America suffering today because of US policies. The US media, Western media overall, never explained this. I explained many times in my articles.

The US is a global menace unlike any other in world history. And I fear that something very bad could happen. A war may be a war that would be the last one ever waged if it's waged with nuclear weapons. This is what the US has come down to.

The country I grew up in was never beautiful, but it was far, far different than the US today. It's why I am glad that I'm not young, because I know every young people in the US today. They have nothing, nothing to look forward to because they have a nation run by a criminal gang committing crimes one after another, and harming, harming their own people and people all over the world. It will get everybody to bend to its will and anybody who doesn’t is targeted in one way or another. This is what the US is a rogue state, more dangerous, reckless, and ruthless than any other rogue state in history, worse than Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

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Stephen Lendman, born in 1934 in Boston, started writing on major world and national issues began in summer 2005. In early 2007, radio hosting followed. Lendman now hosts the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network three times weekly. Distinguished guests are featured. Listen live or archived. Major world and national issues are discussed. Lendman is a 2008 Project Censored winner and 2011 Mexican Journalists Club international journalism award recipient.

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