Spaghetti sanctions ...
These days,we keep hearing of intended sanctions against Iran being striven by the US congress, this time it is the gasoline imports, as yesterday it was other goods of dual usage technologies. Whatever the outcome, one should not forget the main thriving element in the business world happens to be "money". As far as any corporate or financial institution is concerned, their loyalty was, is and shall always be towards profit which safeguards their abundance in our times of economic hardships, by no means do they (western firms) really oblige themselves towards any political or lobby oriented policy of divestments by rejecting lucrative transactions with an oil rich country such as Iran, in full knowledge, that should they turn their back, another jumps in, and gone is their chance for the future, which happens to be prosperous.
There are special bureaus in the USA, established to show certain companies how to deliver and do business with Iran, furthermore through which countries to transit their goods and even which firms throughout the world are safe to cover their tracks, these steps are not done to compromise any laws in the USA, but to do business with Iran under the radar of AIPAC the active prefect of Israel in the USA. There are times that some Bank connections are traced and discovered, and so, as always the big AIPAC mouthpieces such as FOX News are activated, the US Govt. pads as expected these so called loopholes and a big news campaign is started to show how strict it all is, but the show goes on, on a different level with different names and numbers. We all know how influential the Israeli lobby is in the USA and almost all politicians in the USA have some skeleton somewhere in a cupboard around the corner, after all senator Lieberman could be doing senator McCain's wife, and the Lobby has info that could be compromising. (just an example)... so they ought to be very cooperative in every aspect of their Iran policy, this precept goes for all that are relevant, and should one "not" be susceptible to pressure, then be assured, their stars will not rise in the first place due to an unavailability of liquidity , other words sponsors.
Europe, is beginning to realize how big business is done, and their constant saber rattling over sanctions towards Iran seems to be losing in momentum, They finalize their deals and then express outrage to calm their Israeli prefects in their countries, as in Austria, Switzerland and now Germany, some of Europe's more credulous companies, state that they wish to do business with Iran, but the value is far too little in comparison with that of their US market, thats why they won't risk the loss of the US market by doing business with Iran,(they will wake up soon enough to realize, they can have both). France will probably not follow suit, since their President is since 1984 an acknowledged member of Mossad, but he won't be there forever.
To sum up, we should be imagining a bowl of Spaghetti with no end visible, somewhere in this bowl, Iran is receiving its merchandise from their western partners, and Israel is running around trying to find the ends.... this diversions costs Iran 6% to 7% more but thats the price of their solo run.
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