“Whatever the sympathy we may have for the people of the United States, their country is still the main predator of humanity. We can in no circumstance claim to share their “values."” July 2019, Manlio Dinucci
11/27/2018, “When we want to sanction States, we say that they are “terrorists”,” by Thierry Meyssan
“The new unilateral sanctions of the United States against Iran, Russia and Syria are in addition to the previous ones concerning these same three targets. This set now forms the toughest embargo in history. The way they are organized is illegal under the UN Charter:
they are weapons of war designed to kill.”
“Defense Secretary James Mattis applauded by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.”
“On his way to Moscow on November 8, [2018] Ambassador James Jeffrey had the mission of explaining US concern over the expansion of Persian influence in the Arab world (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen). Washington now wishes to pose this question in geostrategic terms and no longer in religious (Shiite/Sunni) terms, even as Tehran organizes its national defense around Arab Shiite outposts.
Moscow then imagined negotiating for Tehran the relaxation of unilateral US sanctions in exchange for Iranian military withdrawal from Syria. President Vladimir Putin confirmed his proposal, not only to his US counterpart, but also to the Israeli Prime Minister,
when they met in Paris on the occasion of the
centenary of the end of the First World War, on November 11.
He tried to convince Westerners that Russia alone in Syria was preferable to the Iranian-Russian tandem. He could not, however, assert
that Iran would have sufficient authority over Hezbollah—as Washington and Tel Aviv claim—
to order it to withdraw as well.
In response, [Donald Trump] Washington announced, nine days later, the eleventh set of unilateral sanctions against Russia since the beginning of August [2018]. This is
accompanied by a ridiculous speech
according to which Russia and Iran have jointly organized a vast traffic aimed at keeping President Assad in power
and extending Persian control in the Arab world.
This rhetoric, which was thought to have been abandoned,
equates three states (the Russian Federation, the Syrian Arab Republic and the Islamic Republic of Iran)
with machines in the service of three men (Bashar al-Assad, Ali Khamenei and Vladimir Putin),
united by the same hatred of their respective people.
It ignores the massive popular support they have, while Americans are deeply torn.
Let’s skip the inane claim
that Russia would help Persia conquer the Arab world.
According to [Trump appointee] the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Steven Mnuchin,
who presented
the unilateral US sanctions on November 20,
these do not form the economic component of the current war,
but punish the “atrocities” of these three “regimes”.
However, on the eve of winter,
they mainly concern the supply of the Syrian people
with refined oil so that they can light and heat themselves.
Needless to say, the three target states deny the “atrocities” of which they are accused,
while the United States claims to continue
the war it started in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.
but by [Trump] the United States alone.
They are not legal in international law because, to make them lethal, [Trump] Washington
tries to force third States to join them,
which constitutes a threat against the target States and therefore
a violation of the United Nations Charter.
The United States has the sovereign right to refuse to trade with others,
but not to pressure others to hurt their targets.
The Pentagon once claimed that
inflicting mistreatment on a particular nation
would lead its people to overthrow their government.
This was both the theoretical justification for the bombing of Dresden during World War II and the endless embargo against Cuba since the Cold War.
However, in 75 years,
never, absolutely never,
this theory was checked in the facts.
From now on, the Pentagon considers mistreatment against a nation
Embargoes are made to kill civilians.
The whole system in progress against Iran, Russia and Syria constitutes
the largest siege system in history [ 1 ] .
These are not economic measures, but—without any possible doubt—
implemented in the economic field.
They should lead over time to dividing the world in two again, as at the time of the USA-USSR rivalry.
Secretary Mnuchin insisted at length on the fact that these sanctions aim
above all to interrupt the sale of hydrocarbons,
that is to say to deprive these countries – in principle exporters –
of their main financial resource.
The mechanism described by Steven Mnuchin is as follows:
Syria can no longer refine oil since its facilities were destroyed either by Daesh or by bombings from the International Coalition Against Daesh.
For four years, Iran has been supplying refined oil to Syria
in violation of previous unilateral US sanctions.
This oil is transported by Western companies working for the Russian public company Promsyrioimport.
This company is remunerated by the private Syrian company Global Vision Group,
which is itself bailed out by the Iranian company Tabir Kish Medical and Pharmaceutical.
Ultimately, the Global Vision Group
pays part of what it has received
to Hezbollah and Hamas.
This is a story to sleep tall:
The International Coalition’s official objective is to fight against Daesh. However, numerous testimonies during the last four years attest that it…
on the contrary parachuted weapons into it....The two entities
worked together to destroy Syrian refineries.
Why involve the Russian government in an oil transfer from Iranian refineries to Syrian ports?
Why would Iran suddenly need Syria to funnel money to Hezbollah and Hamas?
Why would Syria funnel Iranian money to Hamas when the Palestinian organization
—whose leaders are members of the Muslim Brotherhood–
is waging war on it?
Steven Mnuchin does not bother with long explanations. For him,
Syria is criminal, Russia is [its] accomplice, while Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas
This is the most important word,
the word that cuts short all reflection….
No logic should be expected in Secretary Mnuchin’s response to President Putin’s mediation proposal.
Gradually, the United States withdrew its troops from the conflicts in which they were engaged.
They replace them with mercenaries on the ground (the [US taxpayer funded] jihadists)
and economic sanctions,
“[ 1 ] If in the Middle Ages Christendom allowed wars between the armies of Catholic sovereigns,
it condemned deliberate military actions against civilians.
In the 13th century, the Catholic Church therefore condemned all sieges when they concerned not only soldiers, but also populations. This ethic has remained that of the Holy See until today. For example, Pope John Paul II opposed the United States when it took economic sanctions against Iraqis during the era of Saddam Hussein. His successor, Pope Francis, is now silent on the issue.”
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