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Topic: Time for an Economic Blockade of Iran |
Time for an Economic Blockade of Iran
RealClearWorld, by Mark Wallace
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Posted By:cebuyer, 12/13/2012 7:46:27 AM
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| The recent demonstrations and protests in Iran over the increasingly perilous state of its economy are the latest and most powerful sign that the economic war is having a tangible impact. There is no doubt that punitive financial and economic sanctions have contributed greatly to the collapse of Iran´s currency, the rial. Iran now suffers from hyperinflation and the rial has fallen by 80 percent in the past year. As history has shown, durable hyperinflation such as this can result in public unrest and, occasionally, regime change.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
SpeedMaster, 12/13/2012 8:51:59 AM (No. 9063104)
Iran will go the way of N Korea, the only ones eating will be the military and mullahs. They see the nuclear option as leverage.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
OdinsAcolyte, 12/13/2012 11:02:11 AM (No. 9063395)
Now really! Bomb Iran. Bomb Syria.
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