{"id":15492,"date":"2013-12-12T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T17:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15492"},"modified":"2013-12-12T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T18:16:13","slug":"white-house-announces-new-sanctions-to-block-irans-trading-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/12\/12\/white-house-announces-new-sanctions-to-block-irans-trading-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Announces New Sanctions to Block Iran\u2019s Trading Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> has the story <a title=\"The New York Times article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/13\/world\/middleeast\/white-house-sanctions-iran.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>White House Announces New Sanctions to Block Iran\u2019s Trading Activities<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under pressure from Congress to demonstrate that it is not easing up on sanctions on Iran\u2019s oil sector or on its nuclear and missile programs, the Obama administration on Thursday announced an expanded list of Iranian companies and individuals that it said it would target to block their trading activities around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have an idea.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see how big a sucker punch we can throw at Iran before they back out of the deal we negotiated with them.\u00a0 If they stick to the deal, we can always punch them some more, until they quit.\u00a0 Then we can say that they were never serious about the deal in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>You just can&#8217;t trust those Iranians to stick to their word.\u00a0 They ought to have the gumption to stand by their word even if we go back on ours.\u00a0 What kind of morality do they have anyway?<\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 300%; font-weight: bold; line-height: 150%;\">Why Can&#8217;t We Stop The Insanity?<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>I found the perfect image for this post on JaneS&#8217; Facebook page.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ash3\/1474529_554931104599948_975316834_n.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has the story White House Announces New Sanctions to Block Iran\u2019s Trading Activities. Under pressure from Congress to demonstrate that it is not easing up on sanctions on Iran\u2019s oil sector or on its nuclear and missile programs, the Obama administration on Thursday announced an expanded list of Iranian companies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15492"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15501,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15492\/revisions\/15501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}