- 26 April 2010
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- Congress, Sanctions, Uncategorized, US-Iran War
Laying the Groundwork for an Iran war
26 April 2010 Posted By Jamal Abdi
On Friday, the Christian Scientist Monitor published what may be the first mainstream editorial linking the push for “crippling sanctions” against Iran as laying the groundwork for war with Iran.
From “Sanctions on Iran’s gasoline imports? That’s war talk.”:
In this post-9/11 age, the idea of preemptive war against a terrorist-prone country supposedly went out of favor after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.
Yet Congress is now pushing President Obama toward steps that could easily be interpreted as an act of war against Iran over its nuclear ambitions.
The House and Senate are moving quickly on a bill to force US sanctions on the sale of gasoline to the Islamic Republic of Iran. In theory, the measure would only punish US and foreign companies that export refined oil products to Iran which, despite being a major exporter of petroleum, lacks sufficient oil refineries.
But there’s a big problem: The only way to really enforce such a crippling sanction against the Iranian economy would be through an American-led naval blockade which, by international law, is an act of war.
Meanwhile, the Zionist Organization of America(ZOA) issued a press release this past Friday announcing that, having spent several years lobbying for gasoline sanctions as “the first step”, now that those sanctions are moving forward, they are beginning to lobby Congress on the next step: war.
Hundreds of Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) activists from 19 states, including dozens of students, took part in ZOA’s annual activist Mission to Washington, D.C., on April 21 to urge Members of Congress to support legislation for immediately imposing new, robust sanctions upon Iran and enforcing the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 as the first step to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. Mission activists urged the necessity of military action should peaceful, diplomatic measures fail to stop Iran’s drive to obtain a nuclear weapons capability…
That hawkish organizations support possible war with Iran is not news. But the fact that organizations are openly lobbying Congress on this point means a new but all too familiar threshold is now being crossed.
5 Responses to “Laying the Groundwork for an Iran war”
Good post, Jamal.
Hard to figure there’s an ethnically organized political group in America that so brazenly advocates a war of aggression, but here you have these Zionists doing exactly that. They’re really quite open about their goals of colonialism, war and foreign interest taking precedence over that of the host country. But then, they represent the overt, grass roots element of the the subtler, far more powerful influences of the Israel lobby and mainstream media.
I think this powerful effort is looking for a war anywhere inside three years. That’s why it is so important not to become an indirect contributor, by participating in any kind of activity that can be utilized in demonizing the Islamic Republic of Iran. By not doing so, Jamal, we’re trying to avert a potential human catastrophe on the order of which Iraq experienced in the previous decade- a truly horrifying thought.
It’s tragic that NIAC’s moderators would post such hateful garbage.
Dr. Doom,
Are your comments in regard to this article? This particular article is clearly not “hateful”. One would have to have a very bizarre imagination to think otherwise.
War with Iran is justified. The regime is holding its citizens hostage and committing acts of aggression against other countries.
The fact that Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Hammas receive direct support from the mullahs is not even once mentioned in this article.
The only way to rid middle-east of such hatred is cutting off the source, the Iranian regime.
I heard this directly from His Majesty Reza Shah. “If all the houses in the neighborhood are being set on fire, don’t just put out the fire, look for the arsonist”. Well, Iran is the arsonist here.
We have to overcome our love of the country in order to save it. Our desire for a peaceful end to this regime has not been fruitful for over 3 decades. How many more innocent people need to be killed by the regime for us to consider the longer term consequence of a peaceful solution to the Iranian problem?
Let the ZOA help us get closer to ending this once and for all.
The comments on this post illustrate the idiocy of the extremists on both sides. One side defends Iran’s corrupt and violent government despite overwhelming proof they are oppressing the Iranian people, and the other advocates all out war on the Iranian people. I always found it interesting how extremists are able to see the absurdity of the opposite extreme and yet are completely oblivious to the absurdity of their own beliefs.
Fortunately, most Iranian-Americans are intelligent and educated, and thus, as a majority, have very reasonable opinions about what NIAC and the US administration should do in regards to Iran.