Why does CNN report this kind of nonsense? The last statement by the FM is hilarious. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/05/politics/iran-zarif-trump-white-house-invitation-intl/index.html? (CNN)Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says that he was sanctioned by the United States after refusing an invitation to meet President Donald Trump at the White House in July. Speaking at a press conference on Monday in Tehran, Zarif said that during his visit to the United Nations last month he met with several US senators and congressmen. Zarif said that he was warned that if he had accepted the invitation to the White House, he could have avoided the sanctions against him. The minister said that he would not name the senators or congressmen he met with nor would he detail the contents of their conversations due to his role as a diplomat.
The fact that, not long before being sanctioned, Zarif was invited to the White House to meet with Trump with Trump's blessing, and he declined, is well established -- and first revealed by Senator Paul and, to my knowledge, never disputed even by Trump (despite having a disposition that doesn't take kindly to rejection). You can find the story in every major outlet, including the propaganda network of choice for most right wing politicians, namely FOX. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ir...ite-house-tehran-decided-against-visit-report
We can't fix things if we don't talk. Oil for food might be a good place to start and a way to start building a relationship based in trust.
By the way, i am glad the aircrew of the Iranian f-4 that crashed was able to eject. Fighter pilots are the best people on earth i don't care what country they are from.
Your quite funny, even if unintentionally! Save for a very small and select group of specialized medicines, Iran is basically the most self sufficient country on earth. https://www.barrons.com/articles/iran-the-next-frontier-1427508357 Iran's economy took a major hit right before the US reimposed its sanctions in anticipation of those sanctions. Since then, the situation has largely stabilized. In fact, if past history is any guide, Iran's economy will do fine under sanctions. In fact, while uncertainty is not good for any economy in the short run, and while Iran's GDP has suffered a 5% down trend, in the longer run these sanctions will mostly hurt European businesses and multinational companies hoping to tap into the world's largest "untapped market". Otherwise, these sanctions have always merely helped domestic industries in Iran. https://lobelog.com/how-maximum-pressure-can-yield-economic-prosperity-for-iran/ How “Maximum Pressure” Can Yield Economic Prosperity For Iran
Then why complain about sanctions? The left wing media keeps telling us our sanctions are starving children. Is the media lying?
If they are saying anyone is being "starved", they are definitely lying. But there are some vulnerable people, suffering from certain diseases, which can't get affordable imported medicine and are suffering badly. And, of course, the down turn in the economy has hit people's pocket books and hurt the most disadvantaged segments of the population the most. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...it-afghan-refugees-hardest-column/1803894001/ In Trump-Iran showdown, Afghan refugees are neglected but devastating collateral damage Trump's new sanctions are meant to build pressure on the Iranian government, but Afghan refugees and other vulnerable people will feel the most pain.
This story is most plausible. Such childish behavior by the US is the hallmark of the Trump administration.
Are you real? You appear to be saying you are currently stopping Iran getting food and would be prepared to let Iran have some food for oil If the United States is trying to starve the people of Iran then it is going way off International Law. It is not allowed to do this. The same is true for the medicines you are refusing the people of Iran the right to have and which as Zarif has said is costing people their lives. This also is a heinous crime against International Law. You expect Iran ever to trust the current US Government...please.. After you have had your day at the ICC, maybe.
Support Hamas and Hezbollah and calling Israel a cancer. That is the haneous act. If the Iranian government won't stop doing those things they have no rights to any type of trade.
You believe supporting people who are being brutalised and colonised by Imperialists is heinous. I see. We have a problem of values here. You believe going against International law, indulging in collective punishment of the civilians of a State including depriving them of food and medical supplies which results in their deaths is all right. I see. We have a problem of values here. Even if the Iranian Government did support people who are being deprived of their land, colonised and brutalised, you would still have no right by International law to indulge in collective Punishment of the men women and children of Iran...and it is always the poor who are hurt the most. You still would have no right to starve them of food and refuse to allow them access to medicines they need. This is all against International law and there is no excuses.
The UN is wrong. Israel has the land it now has as a direct result of arab aggression and the need for Israel to protect itself.
No that is not it but I will accept that is what you think. However this is bye the bye. It is against International Law to commit collective punishment on a country if for instance you do not like the Government they have elected or any other reason. The US is doing that, not just in Iran but in Venezuela and no doubt many other places. It is against International Law to have a war on people which is collective punishment depriving the people of Food and Medicine. I am watching an interview of Maduro by Max Blumenthal. Maduro believes the US is currently run by the KKK! That may or not be true but the reality is the US is going way against International Law harming civilians men women and children. You can get away with it now because you are still the world power but I would not bet on that situation staying like that for ever. All lives are valuable. The US does not seem to believe that.
4 No sorry. The reality is that what you are doing, collective punishment, depriving people of food and medicine is against International law. You may believe it is fine to act in a manner which results in babies and others dying as you hope that will result in civil war and millions dying. You are entitled to your own opinion but it is not just morally wrong to do that, it is against International Law.
Yawn, sorry we just switched from Iran to south America. What do you suggest America does? Send food to a corrupt government thats been starving it's people for years?
