SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Iran - including its government and civil society - will no longer treat the deliberate destruction of its economy as an acceptable policy

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One of the greatest silent crimes of the past decades has been the economic sanctions imposed on Iran. The scale and depth of this unwarranted and unjustified pressure rise to the level of crimes against humanity. Iran has aptly described these measures as “economic terrorism,” for they follow the precise logic of terrorism: deliberately inflicting harm on civilians in order to force the government into political concessions.

Western politicians who today express outrage over even modest rises in fuel prices at the pump proudly and openly engineered the destruction of Iranian lives, complete with charts, graphs, and spreadsheets. Some boasted about it during election campaigns to curry favor with the Israel lobby. Others wrote books celebrating their handiwork, shamelessly titling their criminal enterprise “The Art of Sanctions.” Still others paraded figures in AIPAC conferences showing how their policies had collapsed Iran’s currency, eroded Iranians’ purchasing power, triggered runaway inflation, and devastated the economy. 

Rudy Giuliani, for one, flaunted a fake picture of an Iranian man holding a sign offering to sell his kidney for $500 and declared it proof that the sanctions had pushed the government “on the verge of toppling.” Mike Pompeo openly admitted that the sanctions were making life “much worse for the Iranian people,” adding that this was intentional: “we are convinced that will lead the Iranian people to rise up and change the behavior of the regime.”

They all treated ordinary Iranians as pawns in their sinister game: first destroying people’s lives through crushing economic pressure, then deploying a sophisticated propaganda network to convince them that their own government was incapable of managing the economy, and finally calling on them to take to the streets in protest.

In the process, they destroyed countless lives, shattered dreams, ruined businesses, tore families apart, and deprived millions of essential medicines.

And all of it for what? For Iran enriching uranium under the strictest international monitoring - an activity that, by every technical assessment, offered absolutely no pathway to nuclear weapons.

Iran - including its government and civil society - will no longer treat the deliberate destruction of its economy as an acceptable policy. It will view such actions as a direct affront to its vital national interests and respond accordingly.