the Kontinuing Killing of Iran

Will it reach a CKrescendo soon? Yes, we’re lookin’ at you, Bibi. Also: your wife wears combat boots (on her face), so there!

‘Washington escalates “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran’, 6 September 2019,, Bill Van Auken







And while I suppose Iran’s ruling class continuing to reap profits, wsws does say the same about the Maduro government, Xi’s, and of course Putin’s oligarchs, I at least find myself hoping that it’s not quite so.



Remember we were told that FM Zarif had paid a ‘surprise visit’ to the G7 Summit, and wondered how that went?



Now this is both terrifyingly nutz and dangerous, but he offers no link to the Times piece, and I couldn’t kick it up externally, albeit paywalls and all that rot.  Were they all anonymous US and Israeli officials, as the NYSlimes often quotes in their war fervor?



Related evidence?

Iran will give Europe two months to save nuclear deal – Rouhani’,  4 Sept. 4, 2019,

“Europe has two months to negotiate sanctions relief for Tehran, otherwise the country will initiate ‘phase three’ in its rollback of commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said.

“Europe has another two-month deadline for negotiations, agreement, and a return to its commitments,” Rouhani warned at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

Tehran has been calling on the EU to provide relief from the sweeping sanctions that were imposed by Washington after the US unilaterally left the 2015 deal, known as the JCPOA. Iranian officials have warned that they will gradually reduce their commitments under the agreement if this does not happen.

In early July, Iran activated the ‘first phase’ of this strategy by increasing its stockpile of enriched uranium beyond the 300kg limit imposed by the JCPOA. The ‘second phase’ – enriching uranium beyond 3.67 percent – was effected shortly afterwards.”

(cross-posted at

5 responses to “the Kontinuing Killing of Iran

  1. h/t b at MoA:

    via FARS news Sept.5:

    In late August, The US Treasury Department blacklisted the Iranian oil tanker – recently freed from a month-long detention in Gibraltar – and sanctioned its captain after an attempt to confiscate the ship failed.

    Iran had condemned the “illegal move” of London and described it as “tantamount to piracy”. Tehran accused the UK of doing Washington’s bidding and helping the US attempt to stifle the Islamic Republic’s oil exports, rejecting London’s claim that the supertanker was carrying crude for Syria.
    Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei had slammed Britain’s illegal seizure of the oil tanker, warning London of a pending response to the seizure of the supertanker that he referred to as a case of “piracy”.

    Then a week later in mid-July, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) impounded the British tanker ship, ‘Stena Impero’, as it was passing through the Strait of Hormuz en route to Saudi Arabia “for failing to respect international maritime rules”. The Stena Impero is still in Iranian custody, while Tehran has stated that the fate of violator British oil tanker seized in the Iranian waters depends on a decision made by the judiciary.

    The recent moves by foreign powers in the Middle East such as US sanctions on Tehran’s oil, UK seizure of Iranian supertanker, as well as, “sabotage operations” on oil ships have intensified the turmoil in the region and the turmoil in the international energy market, affecting global crude prices in recent months.

    Zavad Zarif Retweeted Bruno Rodríguez P
    “#US #EconomicTerrorism against Cuba, China, Russia, Syria, Iran &… deliberately target civilians, trying to achieve illegitimate political objectives through intimidation of innocent people. US rouge [rogue] behavior now includes piracy, bribery & blackmail. We salute Cuba & stand w/it”

  2. spiritlevelbalance

    US and Israel greed does not bode well for the world economy. How can the citizens of those two countries justify the damage being done in their governments’ name?

    • welcome to the café, spritlevelbalance. now the answer to your Q would be complicated as hell, but in this case, they justify it because they want to believe that iran is in search of nuclear bombs, never mind that they’ve always been in compliance with the IAEA inspectors, both likkud in israel and
      obomba, now trump, believing or pretending to believe that iran wants to ‘wipe israel off the map’, sort of an old, possibly mis-translation of some rant former president achmedinejad (sp?) had gone on years and years ago.

      so it’s not greed, really, that’s the motivating factor: it’s killing their economy, same in russia, venezuela, and cuba. possibly soon bolivia, as was completed in allende’s chile to ‘make the economy scream’ in order to foment a right-wing revolution, as happened decades ago. of course it’s war by other means…for now…and it’s hard to say if rumors of bombing the nuclear installation is just by way of a psyop or not, but either way, it’s a dangerous game.

      but the sides have been chosen: US, israel, saudi arabia (wahabbi muslim) v. iran (shiite muslim), proxies and allies, and as the amerikan empire is flailing and falling, failing to cede to a multipolar world, this quote is what the world is seeing now:


      ~ Joseph Schumpeter, 1951

  3. spiritlevelbalance

    Yes, Wendy, you make sense. Greed is perhaps too mild a human condition to describe the capitalist war on social economies. The fact that China has sided with Iran against the US sanctions (to buy their oil) is exposing the farcical unilateral policies of the empire.
    Thanks for the Roman quote.

  4. indeed, spiritlevel; just imagine if the world were to cooperate, not compete, what it would mean for all people of the earth. the notion of zero sum must have originated in the west, no?

    even the west’s acceptance of a multi-polar world aided by true by diplomacy, not war in its many guises…would look so different. but here we are, and this dying empire (as per schumpeter) is killing itself. maybe us along with it.

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