The regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad now talks of an “economic war” but Iranians are beginning to panic about the deteriorating situation and are asking themselves what will happen next.Read the whole thing. There's just one small problem. The sanctions may be wreaking havoc with the economy but they have had no effect on the nuclear program, which continues to move ahead.
Pensioner Kamal G no longer understands the world as he stands in a butcher’s shop waiting to purchase minced meat. The price for a kilo sets him back over 200,000 rials ($ 16), more than double what the 73-year-old paid just two months ago.
Kamal has been unable to afford steaks for a considerable time while chicken moved out of his price range a couple of weeks ago. Soon even minced meat will be beyond his budget.
“Soon I will be spreading atomic energy on my bread,” he says in a joking reference to Iran’s controversial nuclear programme which has prompted the sanctions.
The sanctions imposed by the US and European Union have finally been having the desired effect on Iran since the beginning of the year.
“The suspension of any co-operation by international banks with Iran is the worst one of all,” says one economics expert in Tehran. “Nobody can pay or get paid.”
Iran lost between 25 and 40% of its primary income as a result of the oil embargo while sanctions have also crippled the country’s hopes of attracting foreign investment. Small businesses that have for decades enjoyed a healthy export trade can no longer continue doing business with foreign companies as a result of the banking embargo.
Iran is looking at opening up alternative trading channels in Latin America and Africa but economic experts do not take this plan seriously.
What could go wrong?
Labels: Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:45 AM
1 Comments:
The regime does does not care what happens to ordinary Iranians. The regime first executed hundreds of thousands of Iranians to secure power in 79-80. Then proceeded to kill upwards of a million Iranians fighting Iraq in that war. Every few years a devastating earthquake kills 40-50,000 Iranians and they simply bulldoze the rubble. The regime is as indifferent to Iranians as the Chinese emperors were of the peasants. Or as the old saying goes "Heaven is high and the emperor is far away."
Post a Comment
<< Home