Trump restores sanctions, Iranians rally to mark anniversary
Iranian students occupied the embassy on 04 November 1979 after the U.S. granted permission to the late Iranian Shah to be hospitalized in the States. Over 50 U.S. diplomats and guards were held hostage by students for 444 days.ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH / EPA
Anger and distrust of the United States is surging again following President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers.
Thousands of Iranians rallied in Tehran on Sunday to mark the 39th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover, as Washington restored all sanctions lifted under the nuclear deal.
The crowd chanted “Down with U.S.” and “Death to Israel” during the rally in the capital, and state TV said similar demonstrations were held in other cities and towns.
Iranian students stormed the embassy shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, taking 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The U.S. cut off diplomatic relations in response.
The Trump administration has stated the sanctions aren’t aimed at toppling the government, but at coercing it to radically change its policies as the world’s leading exporter of terror, and halt its development of long-range ballistic missiles and nuclear capability.
Hard to see how this plays out. Iran is already in the grip of an economic crisis, and has seen large protests in recent months as Iranian officials have tried to downplay the existing sanctions and their effects. Iran knows it can’t prevail militarily, and Trump is already shuffling the flow of oil and will sanction any county that buys oil from the Mad Mullahs without a waiver.
Interesting times.
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Don’t they have some American intellectual property to steal to prove their superiority? For someone who hates “The Great Satan” so much, they sure seem to like our stuff.
Remember their brand-new, world-beating, completely-domestically-developed jet they unveiled recently that’s just an F-5 with new paint?
Hey, the F5 was a good light fighter in her day. The US exported boatloads of them. You could buy a 100 of them for the price of one F22.
Maybe they will play Our Anniversary (Shep & The Limelites on Hull, 1962) when they march down the streets.
Hmmm…. well, while Iran does have several reactors to provide electricity for Iranians, there is nothing to say they don’t have one that is capable of producing the chain reaction that produces a nuclear explosion, is there?
I don’t view anything they say as ‘not a threat, real silly’. We know how nasty they can be. Not sure exactly what to make of this, but the reaction to it was to be expected.
Wait – weren’t they selling parts to Norkiland a while back, before Li’l Kim got slapped down and was told to behave?
Yes they were Mi’Lady, lil Kimcheese had all kinds of pieces and parts from them. Lil Kim is making noise, too, that if The Donald doesn’t lift some sanctions on NK, then he will start back up his nuc program. These dumbass need to quit poking the bear with that pointy stick.
Almost any reactor waste can be reprocessed for the fissile material needed as boomstuff. Some designs are better for that, others not so much.
One can also “salt” the power types with fuel rods containing stuff that becomes fissile when bombarded by neutrons. This is how a country can have “peaceful” power plants yet still semi-covertly make nuclear weapons.
They really only need -one- successful test to be taken as a genuine threat. Freighters make adequate delivery systems if the target has coastal cities.
It’s my personal opinion that if these two countries want to have nuclear missiles, we should deliver them a half a dozen or so, each; special air mail from Minot, one way, no deposit, no return.
There is some structure in the eastern part of Iran that looks distinctly like a bunker, the kind you’d go hide in (and leave everyone else behind) in case there was a nuke attack. I used to be able to find it quickly, but not so much any more.
The people of Iran (despite this particular protest) are not happy with the Ayatollahs and the way they spend money on themselves. Maybe this pot can come to a boil on its own before long.
We know/knew that Ol’ Shah had some nice bunkers back when. Not defending him or the way he was or treated the Persians, but while he was running things, the average Persian seemed to have a better life. He, like many another dictator got too greedy/power hungry pissed off the wrong group of folks and made it possible for the whole religious fanatics to take over. The whole death to America and death to Israel crowd. Now these idiots have done the same thing. And it’s been 39 years and the average person on the street is no better off than they were on this date in history 1979. We all know that the people in power will do whatever they can get away with to stay in power. As long as they (Iranians) can keep the hatred toward an outside enemy, they hope they can control the people. We hope that the people will get tired of it and rise up. Nobody can win a nuclear war. Nobody.
More likely than not, the majority of the population, especially those with some education, are worse off than they were or would have been pre-1979.
That’s an absolute fact. Back in the mid 70’s, Tehran had a healthy tourist industry, for instance. Women/girls walked the streets wearing normal clothing and were educated in co-ed schools.
Right. Roughly 51% of the country, the females, are absolutely worse off.
“Anger and distrust of the United States is surging again…….” I
Ummmmmm…….when were they NOT angry and distrust the US?
Not since the overthrow of the Shah, maybe even before then.
So this is nothing new.
Do not sanction them, rebuild Iran as a giant glass sheet.
WAR STORY ALERT: We hosted the hostages at the US Military Academy for a week of evaluation when they returned. Fast forward to when we were planning to take out Saddam Hussain, one of the female hostages was in a group of evaluators for a practice special forces exercise at Dugway Proving Ground. They were set up in the control tower and my job was to get them fed. Some of her associates tried to get me to serve her tuna fish claiming she “loved it”. Apparently that is mostly what the hostages were fed. We fed them pizza, then lost a chopper with 11 brave men in the Great Salt Lake and the exercise was terminated. .