Iran and the US Administration: Mocking US Sanctions
by Majid Rafizadeh • May 4, 2024 at 5:00 am
Never before have sanctions been so ostentatiously disregarded without any seeming awareness by those violating them of the possible consequences.
The US administration, it appears, has actually been funding Iran to attack Israel and itself.
The Biden administration has provided a lifeline to the Iranian regime by providing it with much-needed financial relief to export more oil and terror.
The evasions of US sanctions by Iran and its allies – largely thanks to the Biden administrations' sanctions waivers -- mark a new chapter in America's history. Never before have sanctions been so ostentatiously disregarded without any seeming awareness by those violating them of the possible consequences.
Flouting international agreements not only undermines the integrity of the sanctions themselves but has also been demolishing the authority and credibility of the US administration. The problem is that such ostentatious flouting of sanctions has been producing a global lack of respect for the United States. Such derision has been transforming the once formidable reputation of the US into little more than a punchline, and, in the eyes of allies and adversaries alike, reducing America's stature to that of an attractive target.
