Ahmadinejad and Mullahs Stealing from Iran's Citizens

Sanctions levied on another country, especially the economic kind, have not really worked well in the past, it is thought. At least as far as what those who would be in the know can tell, this has been true for a very long time and yet, we still levy them.

As a matter of fact, the economic sanctions we have exacted, according to a professor at Oxford University, Adam Roberts, "There are very few cases where we can definitely identify sanctions as having had a success, except sometimes in combination with other factors."

He continued, "Arguably they contributed something to the change in the white minority Rhodesia that led to black majority rule; arguably the sanctions against South Africa were on factor that contributed to change there."

The problem in deciding whether they worked, though, is hard because guerrilla opposition was a factor, so, "it is impossible to say in either of these cases that sanctions were the decisive factor," Roberts said.

This leads us to Iran and today's ongoing economic sanctions, by Europe and us, against Iran's banks and whether these are working.

It is actually one of those times where it is quite possible to say: they are not.

Reports such as "$200 Billion of Iran's Currency Reserves Go Missing on Ahmadinejad's Watch" and "Newest Top 1000 List For IRI Official's Bank Accounts" lead one to logically conclude economic sanctions have had zero affect on Iran other than to hurt the average citizen.

Not only are these mullahs striving to take as much money from Iran's citizens as possible in as short a time as possible, but they are also making life as hard as they can to even live since Islam "claims that everything and everyone before and outside Islam is nothing but darkness and sin".

Laws that include a social model based on "sexual apartheid", such as the belief that women are deficient in their "natural and innate potentials and abilities", have done extreme damage to the female populace.

This sexual apartheid includes a woman's "psychological-makeup and intellectual capacity" and how men must be guardians over them and that women must submit or be punished. A punishment that is unequal to that of a man.

There is a law that also defines when puberty begins with an Addendum that defines puberty for girls coming six years before boys although girls are given less rights and harsher punishments.

And it doesn't stop there by any means as citizens who are resistant to Islam, like Amir Javadifar, Mohsen Rouhoulamini, Mohammad Kamrani and Ramin Aghazedeh Chahremani, who were arrested in 2009 during a post-election protest, are tortured along with having to deal with poor prison conditions and lack of medical attention. These men were not alone, as many analysts believe the number is not small when it comes to the innate ability of Iran's regime to punish those who refuse to submit.

It is a grave sin, under Islam, to be a Persian nationalist as well and those citizens who follow the Zoroastrian faith have been persecuted with their places of worship being desecrated, destroyed and mosques built in their place.

Truly, it is without doubt an incredible farce for anyone to put economic sanctions on a country that has no qualms pushing their aberrant and barbaric beliefs upon their citizens to the point where they will torture and execute them should they not submit peacefully.

Logically speaking: should someone believe they have the right to do horrific things to another human being, they will believe stealing and pillaging all they can from them is their innate right as well.

And all one has to do is look at this unbelievable list of accounts with banks in countries such as Germany, Switzerland, Russia and even Canada and the UK to recognize that, yes indeed, these sanctions are not going to be the answer.

It is a disabused notion that it comes to either sanctions or warfare, as a citizen, who is caught inside the tentacles of the Islamic regime, wishes us to know they believe a way to end it is to terminate the buying of oil from Iran.

They will remain un-named for obvious reasons, but this should not detract from the message and it should not detract from the over-all meaningless use of sanctions either.

"The best way to overthrow the Islamic regime is that all countries stop buying oil from Islamic regime. As long as oil is bought from the Islamic regime, it continues to survive," they said.

Sources: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-606777?ref=feeds%2Flatest; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10742109; http://iransnews.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/death-in-mullah-prisons/; http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/17/a-slap-on-the-mullahs-wrist/; http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2010/December03/0341.html