TwoBottles:
I wonder why it's only the U.S. that can sanction countries. What of Russia?

How famous is the Russian currency when compared to dollars?

[quote author=21cents post=85687014]May God punish our leaders 10x.. instead of them building the country towards self sufficiency and an African Giant, such that overzealous countries like America and co. can bark at us and we'd give them the middle finger, they're all busy on a looting spree.

The American dream is amongst the best thing anyone can yearn for as far as I'm concerned, but her foreign policy is nothing to write home about.
and for you myopic individuals who are seeing these latest noise as religious ish, and are turning blind eyes to the latest American hegemony, they'd be a certain time when they'd come for you too. Karma is a bad bittch and will serve you all equally. [/quote

While I wont take anything away from your submission, I want you to knw that in this world there can't be a vaccum when it comes to leadership or a super power, Russia,China, Iran all knw this. At every point in history you do have a country that is head above all others,and Iran used to be one in the past as Persian empire, so I see nothing different because soon American power will wane and a new power will rise,until then let's pray for peace and more peace

Dannybammz:
(CNN)The Trump administration is imposing new sanctions on Iran following attacks on US and allied troops earlier this week, Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced Friday.

"The President is issuing an executive order authorizing the imposition of additional sanctions against any individual owning, operating, trading with, or assisting sectors of the Iranian economy including construction, manufacturing, textiles, and mining," Mnuchin told reporters at the White House.

He noted those would be both primary and secondary sanctions and that the executive order allows the US to designate other sectors in the future.

Additionally, the US is announcing 17 specific sanctions against Iran's largest steel and iron manufacturers, three Seychelles-based entities, and a vessel involved in the transfer of products.

The actions, the administration says, will "cut off billions of support to the Iranian regime."

The administration is also sanctioning eight senior Iranian officials who were involved in Tuesday's strike, Mnuchin said.

The announcement, Mnuchin said, is "part of our commitment to stop the Iranian regime's global terrorist activities," noting that the sanctions will be in effect "until Iran stops its terrorist activities and commit to never having a nuclear weapon."

This is a breaking story and will be updated.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/01/10/politics/us-sanctions-iran-mnuchin/index.html

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America are coward, only sanctions they know ,nothing more. Let then respond to Iranian missile let see.
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Trump ride on, Iran has been jailing Christians and killing them,


Keep sanctioning them,
They are very evil,
UAE is a Muslim country, there is peace everywhere, freedom of religion, you can attend church services,


Christians have been suffering and rotting away in jail,
God punish Iran president,

Since he said the world will not have peace because of his idealogy, peace will depart from his life,
Every time Americans will have to interven unbehalf of Christians, even during the time of Barack Obama, they keep pleading so they will release christians in jail, I have participated in an international prayer to release an American-Iranian, which they later released after the prayers,
Does Iran belong to only a set of religion?
Why will they impose their religion on there citizens?

That wicked Iran president has been dealing with Christians all these years,
His cup is filled,
That is one of the reasons Trump came after them, All those leaders going after Christians,
God will visit them with serious vengeance,

I will repay say the Lord,
He said vengeance is mine,
God will raise people that will deal with them.

GogobiriLalas:
I mean sanctions are good and all but it's no longer as effective as it used to be; in these days of high internet access there's just so much you can do to stifle a country's economy.

Besides, there's a religious aspect to the issue of Iran, there are groups, states and individuals who deem it a religious obligation to ensure that Iran not only survives these crushing sanctions but thrive and even surpass its enemies.

Another issue is that of the power struggle between super states, you won't stop an imperialistic China from gaining access to cheap oil from Iran; the Chinese obey no law if the objective advances the interest of China.

If the Iranian Government succeeds in keeping the peace within its population, its only option now is to hasten the development of a Nuke; once they are successful then sanctions become mute.

The West on the other hand is a faltering giant, feminism, perversion, atheism and luxury has weakened their will to fight a sustained war.

The West will have to face the threat of Iran head on, Trump was on the right track, but now that de-escalation has set in, the option is to enforce rigorous sanctions, decimate Iran's cyber capabilities, sow the seeds of discord, propaganda and poverty in Iran to destabilize the Country, seek and destroy covert organizations that support Iran and NEVER let Iran set off a Nuke.

Those that say that these sanctions never hurt must be delusional. Even China can't do business with them because what the sanction means is that any business entity that does business with them will be barred from doing any business with America and her allies who still control the finances of this our world.
Every money that moves around this world is controlled by the Anglo Saxon financial system of this world. Even China or Russia can't break these control.
World Bank is permanently controlled by US while IMF is permanently controlled by Europe.

Oches4me:
A terrorist country, the first and only country to used weapon of mass destruction on japan is calling others terrorist, which u agaist their interest u automatically be tag terrorist.
Nigerian supporting USA should know south American dominated by christain are also under American sanction.

What do you know that about USA involvement in Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan,i Infact how old are you?,why not use your data for your assignments in school

djon78:




Those that say that these sanctions never hurt must be delusional. Even China can't do business with them because what the sanction means is that any business entity that does business with them will be barred from doing any business with America and her allies who still control the finances of this our world.
Every money that moves around this world is controlled by the Anglo Saxon financial system of this world. Even China or Russia can't break these control.
World Bank is permanently controlled by US while IMF is permanently controlled by Europe.

Oga stop saying what you don't know jare. China patronize Iran despite the sanction. Russia still give aid to Venezuela after the USA sanctioned them. America can't intercept Russia or Chinese ship supplying fuel to Syria. Check your facts.

djon78:




Those that say that these sanctions never hurt must be delusional. Even China can't do business with them because what the sanction means is that any business entity that does business with them will be barred from doing any business with America and her allies who still control the finances of this our world.
Every money that moves around this world is controlled by the Anglo Saxon financial system of this world. Even China or Russia can't break these control.
World Bank is permanently controlled by US while IMF is permanently controlled by Europe.

What humans really need are services & products, money is just a means for an exchange. Without the products or services d dollar itself is useless.

GogobiriLalas you idea might have worked especially if the said people are Arabs or Africans ( pretty good at backstabbing their own countries). The thing is, majority of Iranians are Persians. All these sanctions will just make them crazily develop their nukes at even faster rate just like d crazy dude at Pyongyang who keeps blowing up the ocean running tests

itsme01:




useless sanction from a noise maker.... Iran fired missile at two of your military base without missile defense system stopping them yet you are firing worthless sanction... with all the sanctions Iranians still drive chevrolet and cadilac, use Iphones, they still use internet and hack US websites and still live a good



..

Shut the ff there are no us defense system in Iraq ....

Truth370:



Oga stop saying what you don't know jare. China patronize Iran despite the sanction. Russia still give aid to Venezuela after the USA sanctioned them. America can't intercept Russia or Chinese ship supplying fuel to Syria. Check your facts.

The useless sanctions only affects trade between the us and those countries involved. It doesn't concern other countries doing trade with them. It's just like telling a trader who you've been her regular customer that you'll stop buying from her coz you had a quarrel. That doesn't stop mama nkechi and mama Bose from buying from her.

Bobbyfreshh:



Shut the ff there are no us defense system in Iraq ....

why dont you stick to threads within you IQ, this one pass you my guy.. its not about meme and cartoons

ODUBEZE:
Anything that will stop any form of terrorism is welcomed by me.

ideally, Iran is not suppose to possess any form of weapon

it's dangerous and risky for the whole world!!!

people that can blow up themselves all in the name of virgins not seen are not supposed to be in charge of deadly weapons as it now concerns the whole world.

Trump is truly an inspiration

Exactly what people fail to understand.
Iran and co look like a breeding ground for terrorists.

itsme01:


why dont you stick to threads within you IQ, this one pass you my guy.. its not about meme and cartoons

John snow ,there can can never be a us defence system in a base not housing heavy military hardware ,in iraq

tammie24:
By the time Trump is done with Iran

They go hands up say they no dey do again

This is not Obama

When coward comment, we know them because, they comment cowardly.

Bobbyfreshh:



John snow ,there can can never be a us defence system in a base not housing heavy military hardware ,in iraq

Nato Base, and US base, close to US embassy in Iraq doesnt have military hardware you nairaland chump chump are fvcking ignorant

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-did-us-missile-defense-fail-septembers-saudi-oil-attack-111791?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8lu-JifrmAhVFQxUIHXLfAYEQFjABegQICBAB

From Clinton to Obama to George Bush and now Trump all having issues with Iran and Iraq (Muslim countries).

They really must be terrorists.

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itsme01:





Nato Base, and US base, close to US embassy in Iraq doesnt have military hardware you nairaland chump chump are fvcking ignorant

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-did-us-missile-defense-fail-septembers-saudi-oil-attack-111791?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8lu-JifrmAhVFQxUIHXLfAYEQFjABegQICBAB

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donaldfafree:
Hope we don't see ur dirty and filthy legs in the US embassy begging for an American Visa. Useless and shameless local terrorist

You think it's every Nigerian who seeks to live or move to the USA?

You gat to be tripping

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itsme01:


why dont you stick to threads within you IQ, this one pass you my guy.. its not about meme and cartoons

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21cents:
once you don't do US's biddings, you'd be subjected to ridiculous stuff like "sanctions". pls can someone remind me who gave US the power to sanction any country at will?

lets all not be hypocritical here, is that not a low-key autocratic rule at display here?? democratic country my foot!!

America dictates to the world and we'd all be here shouting "freedom" BS. tueh!!

If there is no super or greater power to checkmate other power, the world would have be a very dangerous place to live. that is why all men can never be equal in order for peace to reign. simple law of nature

21cents:
May God punish our leaders 10x.. instead of them building the country towards self sufficiency and an African Giant, such that overzealous countries like America and co. can bark at us and we'd give them the middle finger, they're all busy on a looting spree.

The American dream is amongst the best thing anyone can yearn for as far as I'm concerned, but her foreign policy is nothing to write home about.
and for you myopic individuals who are seeing these latest noise as religious ish, and are turning blind eyes to the latest American hegemony, they'd be a certain time when they'd come for you too. Karma is a bad bittch and will serve you all equally.

The American dream is a dream

21cents:
once you don't do US's biddings, you'd be subjected to ridiculous stuff like "sanctions". pls can someone remind me who gave US the power to sanction any country at will?

lets all not be hypocritical here, is that not a low-key autocratic rule at display here?? democratic country my foot!!

America dictates to the world and we'd all be here shouting "freedom" BS. tueh!!

These so called sanctions actually hurt. They hurt badly.

No country is perfect.

I rather the US as superpower than China or Russia. Deal with it. They have been this since 1887. Plus I don't see how Iran is your biggest problem in life.

It's people like you that would still jump for American citizenship or visa.

Lmao. Clown.

Trump has ensured a lot of countries hate the US. From disrespecting the Queen, to saying trash about other world leaders and sacking his staffs that do not agree with his crazy ideas. Even Canadians, one of the closest allies and bother to the North can't stand the US anymore.
May God touch Trump's heart. He needs our prayers.

21cents:
once you don't do US's biddings, you'd be subjected to ridiculous stuff like "sanctions". pls can someone remind me who gave US the power to sanction any country at will?

lets all not be hypocritical here, is that not a low-key autocratic rule at display here?? democratic country my foot!!

America dictates to the world and we'd all be here shouting "freedom" BS. tueh!!

The truth is, any foreign country have the right to sanction another, it is just that US influence is so vast, therefore their sanction hurts more.

By PMB closing our border to Ghana and the other border countries, that is Nigeria sanctioning these countries...By saying Nigeria will not important foreign rice, that is also sanction.

The only thing Nigeria can’t afford to do, bit US does is....if they sanction country A....Country B will cut ties with country A within the letters of that sanction, this way they don’t get monies they actual from such dealings with country A get frozen in US banks and since most international trades are done in dollars, most countries have to fall in line.

klax:


Ok we've heard you. Remember to add they(Iran)killed US millitary contractor and the US retaliated and hacked down Soleiman(the General)and the Iran threw plenty rockets to US base in Iraq and US also retaliated by heavilly sanctioned Iran.

So next time kindly start from the begining and no sentiment pls. Good night.

prove dis nd i will succumb to ur dumb assumption. Trump asslickers!!!

Zoharariel:
This changes nothing. The Iranians have been under sanctions for decades and have been growing from strength to strength - just like Mother Russia.

Amerika on the other hand have been on a steady decline since the 90's.

Furthermore, the United Snakes is $23Trillion (while unofficial is $250Trillion) in debt and cannot repay foreign creditors even if they wanted to.

Below is an exposè of what led to the assassination of Qassem Soleimani.

The Deeper Story Behind the Assassination of Soleimani. Washington Threats to Engage in False flag Sniper Shootings. Iraq Prime Minister

The Iraqi prime minister, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, has revealed details of his interactions with Trump in the weeks leading up to Soleimani’s assassination in a speech to the Iraqi parliament. He tried to explain several times on live television how Washington had been browbeating him and other Iraqi members of parliament to toe the American line, even threatening to engage in false-flag sniper shootings of both protesters and security personnel in order to inflame the situation, recalling similar modi operandi seen in Cairo in 2009, Libya in 2011, and Maidan in 2014. The purpose of such cynicism was to throw Iraq into chaos.

Here is the reconstruction of the story:

[Speaker of the Council of Representatives of Iraq] Halbousi attended the parliamentary session while almost none of the Sunni members did.

This was because the Americans had learned that Abdul-Mehdi was planning to reveal sensitive secrets in the session and sent Halbousi to prevent this.

Halbousi cut Abdul-Mehdi off at the commencement of his speech and then asked for the live airing of the session to be stopped.

After this, Halbousi together with other members, sat next to Abdul-Mehdi, speaking openly with him but without it being recorded.

This is what was discussed in that session that was not broadcast: 

Abdul-Mehdi spoke angrily about how the Americans had ruined the country and now refused to complete infrastructure and electricity grid projects unless they were promised 50% of oil revenues, which Abdul-Mehdi refused.

The complete (translated) words of Abdul-Mahdi’s speech to parliament:

This is why I visited China and signed an important agreement with them to undertake the construction instead. Upon my return, Trump called me to ask me to reject this agreement. When I refused, he threatened to unleash huge demonstrations against me that would end my premiership.

Huge demonstrations against me duly materialized and Trump called again to threaten that if I did not comply with his demands, then he would have Marine snipers on tall buildings target protesters and security personnel alike in order to pressure me.

I refused again and handed in my resignation. To this day the Americans insist on us rescinding our deal with the Chinese.

After this, when our Minister of Defense publicly stated that a third party was targeting both protestors and security personnel alike (just as Trump had threatened he would do), I received a new call from Trump threatening to kill both me and the Minister of Defense if we kept on talking about this “third party”.

Nobody imagined that the threat was to be applied to General Soleimani, but it was difficult for Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi to reveal the weekslong backstory behind the terrorist attack.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.globalresearch.ca/deeper-story-behind-assassination-soleimani/5700117/amp

Now, from this revelation, we are now getting a clearer picture of what really transpired at the inception of the Syrian Civil War - when the Amerikan Mainstream Media went berserk & reported that Bashar Al-Assad was killing the protesters with Snipers on Tall Government Buildings.

I have always known that the United Snakes of Amerika can NEVER EVER BE TRUSTED in anything.

If she gives you a dollar in aid, rest assured that she's getting $1Billion in return.

If she tells you she wants to help you fight Terrorism, rest assured that your Terror problem is about to multiply by 9000.

If she tells you China & Russia are your enemies, rest assured - that is the best time to embrace China & Russia.

If she tells you to devalue your currency & go borrow more money from the IMF & World Bank, you too - like a dundee & mumu, follow her advice and you'll end up like Zimbabwe & Venezuela in no time.

There are ofcourse the willing tools of the Empire planted in all spheres of our Government & NGOs to do the biddings of the Anglo-Zionist Empire; these are the people that MUST be eliminated (including their family members) if we ever want Nigeria to progress.

Whenever you read or watch in the news that The President of any Nation (Especially from The Arc of Resistance) has deployed Snipers to kill his protesting citizens, you now know where it is emanating from - Third Parties from the CIA, MOSSAD & MI6.

People of the world need to understand how to give the United Snakes of Amerika the middle finger whilst practicing excommunication of all of her propaganda & Psy-ops.

Amerikans are enmeshed in mass hysteria due to de-Amerikanization & de-dollarization across the world.

The whole history of the United Snakes is not one of good. It is one of evil. Of death and destruction, intimidation and persecution driven purely by greed via criminal capital accumulation.

The most useless Country in the world whose stock in trade is pillaging & subverting weak foreign Nations.

After Trump - The Orange Baboon & commander of the Twitter Armed Forces assassinated an high-ranking official of a Sovereign State on a foreign soil, he then sent them messages through the Swiss Embassy in Tehran (which has been acting on behalf of Amerika for decades) and also through the Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani - begging them not to retaliate in exchange for lifting sanctions on Iran - while at the same time chest-beating on Twitter to show strength & especially to deceive his gullible followers.

https://twitter.com/40_Ronda/status/1213253810728165376?s=20

The is the exact same policies & tactics the United Snakes employed against the Native Amerikan Indians - on whose blood Amerika was built.

Break treaties, assassinate leaders, and then annex their lands.

Then broker treaties again to allow time to re-arm and fortify.

Rinse and repeat.

If Qasem Soleimani was a terrorist, trust me - he would be having standing ovations in the Amerikan congress on a regular basis or even given a Nobel Prize.

And as for those gullible brainwashed Nigerians (who know next to nothing aside exhibiting their ignorance) in propagating the stupid lies being peddled by the Amerikan MSM that "IRAN MISTAKENLY SHOT DOWN" the Ukrainian Flight PS752 - This is year 2020, you should all RECEIVE SENSE & GROW UP!


WHO SHOT DOWN UKRAINIAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES FLIGHT PS752?

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/01/08/who-shot-down-ukrainian-international-airlines-flight-ps752/

Nigerian shiite Muslim sighted

Truth370:



Oga stop saying what you don't know jare. China patronize Iran despite the sanction. Russia still give aid to Venezuela after the USA sanctioned them. America can't intercept Russia or Chinese ship supplying fuel to Syria. Check your facts.

Let me repeat it again, any Chinese company that does business with them gets sanctioned. They may do it secretly but if they are found out they will pay heavily. Concerning Venezuela, do you know the level of economic hopelessness in that country, research very well.

China and Russia are no match for the Anglo Saxon financial system and there allies. These alliance consists of all the economically advanced Nations

US, Canada, European Union, rich economies in the Asia Pacific: Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, rich Arab states: Saudi Arabia, uae, Kuwait etc

China and Russia are not match economically with US alone talk less when you add these other countries.
That's why they focus on weapons and arms. And most battles these days are more economical

linearity:


The truth is, any foreign country have the right to sanction another, it is just that US influence is so vast, therefore their sanction hurts more.

By PMB closing our border to Ghana and the other border countries, that is Nigeria sanctioning these countries...By saying Nigeria will not important foreign rice, that is also sanction.

The only thing Nigeria can’t afford to do, bit US does is....if they sanction country A....Country B will cut ties with country A within the letters of that sanction, this way they don’t get monies they actual from such dealings with country A get frozen in US banks and since most international trades are done in dollars, most countries have to fall in line.

This is someone that understands the operations of international trade.

I hate this line with passion. What is wrong with you mr slave? so you think people living in America are in heaven? so much for cnn and hollywoord.

Why would any sane person want to live in the US when we have peaceful and noteworthy countries scattered all over the world?

Canada is worth living than America
Switzerland
Norway
Denmark
Finland
Netherland
Botswana
Cape Verde and a host of other countries are much more humane than that covetous country called the US.

The most indebted nation on earth sucking the assz of Saudi Arabia and even China from the backdoor because these 2 own their financial assz

Too bad, we have more foolish people on earth including on Nairaland that can't reason, analyze and be objective. Herd mentality is one of the symptoms of the black man, especially local Nigerians!

donaldfafree:
Hope we don't see ur dirty and filthy legs in the US embassy begging for an American Visa. Useless and shameless local terrorist

Oga stop ranting and your your verbal might to strip America the power to sanction nations at will. The way you have exhibited hatred towards America through your writing is rather strange but will jump to the same US if given opportunity to do so. Iran through their lack of precision shot down a commercial Ukrainian Airline killing all on board and you are there fuming like a klin
once you don't do US's biddings, you'd be subjected to ridiculous stuff like "sanctions". pls can someone remind me who gave US the power to sanction any country at will?

lets all not be hypocritical here, is that not a low-key autocratic rule at display here?? democratic country my foot!!

America dictates to the world and we'd all be here shouting "freedom" BS. eh!! [/quote]

Nigeria as a giant of Africa on paper is so backward in terms of self sufficiency and whole lots more.

Our leaders are just blabbing of their improvement done to attract improvise technology but all those assertions are white lies forbidden never to reckon with.

A single-minded person like you does not even know that America is the country fueling and causing unrest everywhere in the world.

They breed and train terrorists everywhere they go.
Destabilizes countries and hate peace.

A peaceful world will render America useless!

FACT!

They are the only country on earth of recent that goes around invading other countries, yet shallow-minded people like you become blind and accuse others of terrorism. I hope you know Saudi Arabia is America's love-vendor in case you want to play the religious card?

ODUBEZE:
Anything that will stop any form of terrorism is welcomed by me.

ideally, Iran is not suppose to possess any form of weapon

it's dangerous and risky for the whole world!!!

people that can blow up themselves all in the name of virgins not seen are not supposed to be in charge of deadly weapons as it now concerns the whole world.

Trump is truly an inspiration