US keeps seeking regime changes - they did in Ukraine

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Hassan Rouhani: US seeking regime change in Iran
He could be correct it happened before

Washington using psychological and economic warfare in its pursuit, the Iranian president said in a speech

The United States is seeking a regime change in Iran, President Hassan Rouhani has said in a speech broadcast on state TV.

The US is using "psychological and economic warfare" and questioning the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic to "pursue regime change" in Iran, Rouhani said on Sunday while commemorating the beginning of the academic year at Tehran University.

"Reducing the legitimacy of the system is their final goal. When they say getting rid of, regime change in their own words, how does regime change happen? Through reducing legitimacy, otherwise, a regime doesn't change," Rouhani said.

Tensions have ramped up between Iran and the US after President Donald Trump withdrew from a multilateral agreement on Iran's nuclear programme in May and reimposed sanctions in August.

Under the deal signed in Vienna with six world powers - the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, China and the European Union - Iran scaled back its uranium enrichment programme and promised not to pursue nuclear weapons.

In exchange, international sanctions were lifted, allowing it to sell its oil and gas worldwide. However, secondary US sanctions remain.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly confirmed that Tehran has been meeting its nuclear commitments fully.
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The US is planning on imposing additional sanctions targeting Iran's oil sector in November.

Earlier this month, the United Nations' top court issued an interim order to the US to lift sanctions linked to humanitarian goods and civil aviation imposed against Iran - a move Tehran welcomed.

"On humanitarian grounds, the US must remove by means of its choosing any impediment to the free exportation to Iran of goods involving humanitarian concerns," the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said in its ruling on October 3.

The ICJ's rulings are binding, but it has no power to enforce them.

"The decision proved once again that the Islamic Republic is right and the US sanctions against people and citizens of our country are illegal and cruel," Iran's foreign ministry said in a statement.

Tehran had urged the ICJ to order Washington to suspend the sanctions temporarily while it hears Iran's case in full, a process that could take years.

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I disagree
Nobody wants the fall of the Iranian regime
They expose themselves
There, people live very poorly, especially young and promising, because they want freedom from ideology
Young girls do not want to go to the paranja
Therefore, hundreds of thousands of Iranians leave their country and move to Europe and America
Especially those who have some money
Buy real estate and get passports
I.e
Apartments for sale in France https://tranio.com/france/apartments/ Buy and get documents
So it happens
This is done by both rich and ordinary citizens.
The rest go as refugees

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Mohammad Mosaddegh was the first prime minister of free Iran

In 1953 the Mosaddegh government was overthrown in a coup d'état orchestrated by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and the United Kingdom's MI6

America may not be happy with the growth of the Iranian Oil Bourse - remember what happened in Iraq when it wanted to join in with a non-US Middle Eastern Oil Bourse

America has been responsible for many regime changes over the years and is well known for it's many attempts at destroying Castro and was possibly involved in the 1970s Jamaican elections due to Michael Manley's strong ties with Cuba

Both America and the UK have become far more devious in recent years

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Just A Little reminder of what happens to countries - and leaders - that stand up against the US

The economic essence of this arrangement was that the dollar was now backed by oil. As long as that was the case, the world had to accumulate increasing amounts of dollars, because they needed those dollars to buy oil.

As long as the dollar was the only acceptable payment for oil, its dominance in the world was assured, and the American Empire could continue to tax the rest of the world. If, for any reason, the dollar lost its oil backing, the American Empire would cease to exist. Thus, Imperial survival dictated that oil be sold only for dollars. It also dictated that oil reserves were spread around various sovereign states that weren’t strong enough, politically or militarily, to demand payment for oil in something else. If someone demanded a different payment, he had to be convinced, either by political pressure or military means, to change his mind.

The man that actually did demand Euro for his oil was Saddam Hussein in 2000

At first, his demand was met with ridicule, later with neglect, but as it became clearer that he meant business, political pressure was exerted to change his mind. When other countries, like Iran, wanted payment in other currencies, most notably Euro and Yen, the danger to the dollar was clear and present, and a punitive action was in order.

Bush’s Shock-and-Awe in Iraq was not about Saddam’s nuclear capabilities, about defending human rights, about spreading democracy, or even about seizing oil fields; it was about defending the dollar, ergo the American Empire. It was about setting an example that anyone who demanded payment in currencies other than U.S. Dollars would be likewise punished.

Many have criticized Bush for staging the war in Iraq in order to seize Iraqi oil fields. However, those critics can’t explain why Bush would want to seize those fields—he could simply print dollars for nothing and use them to get all the oil in the world that he needs. He must have had some other reason to invade Iraq.

History teaches that an empire should go to war for one of two reasons: (1) to defend itself or (2) benefit from war; if not, as Paul Kennedy illustrates in his magisterial The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, a military overstretch will drain its economic resources and precipitate its collapse. Economically speaking, in order for an empire to initiate and conduct a war, its benefits must outweigh its military and social costs. Benefits from Iraqi oil fields are hardly worth the long-term, multi-year military cost. Instead, Bush must have went into Iraq to defend his Empire. Indeed, this is the case: two months after the United States invaded Iraq, the Oil for Food Program was terminated, the Iraqi Euro accounts were switched back to dollars, and oil was sold once again only for U.S. dollars. No longer could the world buy oil from Iraq with Euro. Global dollar supremacy was once again restored. Bush descended victoriously from a fighter jet and declared the mission accomplished—he had successfully defended the U.S. dollar, and thus the American Empire.

Link to Full Article:

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