DAR AL HARB / ISLAM - U.S.A./IRAN: U.S. PLAN FOR IRAN'S CONTAINMENT

U.S. Plan for Iran's Containment
By Ardeshir Ommani

A greater share of the U.S-U.K. aggregate effort against the nation of Iran is heavily focused on a relatively more conspicuous course of action such as the enforcement of the U.N. sanctions, which aim at strangulating the Iranian economy

A greater share of the U.S-U.K. aggregate effort against the nation of Iran is heavily focused on a relatively more conspicuous course of action such as the enforcement of the U.N. sanctions, which aim at strangulating the Iranian economy and consequently intensifying social tensions and antagonisms that would ultimately lead into undermining the fabric of the social system and the Iranian society altogether.

To carry out a long-term plan of comprehensive containment, just as it did during the cold-war era against the Soviet Union, the West, headed by the U.S., has to prevent the economic centers of the world, particularly the European Union, from having capital investment, financial and commercial dealings with Iran.

At the center of the containment lies blocking foreign capital investment, particularly in Iranian oil and gas sectors, forcing foreign banks not to issue commercial and government-backed credit guarantees, denying export licenses to companies that have dealings with those around the world who have capital investment in Iran’s oil and gas industries, preventing Iranian import-export banks from having financial transactions with foreign banks and lastly carrying out physical inspections of ships entering or leaving Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf.

The U.S. goal is to be able to impose penalties on the foreign companies that have investments in Iran’s oil and natural gas sectors. Without a doubt this is a brazen case of extra-territoriality, by which one nation imposes its domestic laws on foreign companies and sovereign nations. The U.S. government with the help of the democratic majority in the Congress is tempted to invoke a statute enacted in 1996 that permits the U.S. government to punish any foreign energy company doing business with Iran. To pull this off, the U.S. government has to go against such energy companies as Shell, Repsol, and SKS, the Malaysian oil company, as well as the governments of China, India, Pakistan and Malaysia.

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