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What if the world started using US logic in its relations with America?

Clark, Neil
http://www.rt.com/op-ed/436385-us-sanctions-russia-iran

Publisher:  RT
Date Written:  20/08/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

You're sanctioned! You’re bombed! You're invaded! The US has plenty of punishments lined up for states which it claims are doing things wrong. But what if the rest of the world held the US to the same standards?

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Let's look at the recently re-imposed sanctions on Iran, some of which came into force on August 6, with others set for November 4. The financial punishments don't just target Iran. In a particularly nasty, school playground-style bullying tactic they target countries and foreign financial institutions which trade with Iran too. The Islamic Republic is accused of "malign behavior." Of being a leading, sorry, make that "THE world's leading state sponsor of terror."

In fact Tehran's crime has been to help defeat the terrorism, euphemistically described as "rebel activity,"supported by the US and its regional allies in Syria.

If sanctions are to be imposed for "malign behavior" and being a "sponsor of terror" then it's the US that should be sanctioned, and not Iran. Moreover, if we followed the US logic, countries and financial institutions trading with America would be hit too. Just imagine the outcry from Washington if Iran had announced the sort of comprehensive measures against companies and banks that do business with the US, that the US has announced against companies and banks that do business with Tehran. But they would be justified, if we followed the State Department’s line of reasoning.

Russia has been subject to US sanctions since 2014. The Kremlin was accused of "annexing" Crimea, and "undermining" the "democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine," and threatening Ukraine's "peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity."

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