{"id":2768,"date":"2020-03-29T12:35:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T12:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2021-02-01T16:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:58:32","slug":"if-all-lives-matter-lift-u-s-sanctions-against-iran-to-cur-b-the-spread-of-coronavirus-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=2768","title":{"rendered":"If All Lives Matter, Lift U.S. Sanctions Against Iran to Curb the Spread of Coronavirus (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rashid-2013-self-portrait1\"<\/a>I’d like to put to the test the moral commitment of every Amerikan who jumped on and rode the “all lives matter” bandwagon.<\/p>\n

After enduring an unbroken history of violent abuse and indifference, and systemic summary killings at the hands of cops and cop wannabes, Many blacks in Amerika united around the protest slogan “Black lives matter.” Instead of recognizing the social privilege that insulates much of white society from such outrages, and uniting with Blacks to help protect their lives, many whites joined in a counter-slogan “all lives matter,” pretending to interpret “Black lives matter” as meaning only Black lives were meaningful.<\/p>\n

Now if Amerikans genuinely believe all lives matter, then they must join in demanding that sanctions by their government against Iran and other less developed countries be lifted in the face of the growing coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0AMERIKA’S TRUE DESIGNS AGAINST IRAN<\/h3>\n

U.S. sanctions against Iran and its leading role in the war between the West and the Islamic world have nothing to do with curbing ‘terrorism,’ but is a struggle by the West to instill capitalism in the Asian countries that are dominated by Islamic theocracies that reflect pre-capitalist, semi-feudal political economies.<\/p>\n

But furthermore, it’s a struggle to dominate natural gas and oil reserves such as in the Caspian Sea region, Iraq, Iran, etc.<\/p>\n

Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of modern industrial capitalist economies. Whoever rules the world’s oil and gas supplies, rules the world’s fuel market, rules the entire world economy. That’s why the U.S. invaded Iraq. Iraq has the world’s second-largest supply of untapped oil deposits-next to Saudi Arabia, with whom the U.S. is already in bed.\u00a0 But Saudi Arabia has had the power to manipulate America and often does because it has veto power over its oil-it can create artificial shortages that can shock the world oil market and drive already astronomical prices through the roof, as OLPEC did in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

The U.S. went into Afghanistan in 2001 because it was after the untapped natural gas supplies in the Caspian Sea-the world\u2019s largest natural gas deposit.\u00a0 They wanted to build a pipeline through Afghanistan and other Asian countries, straight through to the European market.\u00a0 February 12, 1998, John J. Marescas, UNOCAL\u2019s Vice President, made a bid before a subcommittee of the House Committee on International Relations to build that pipeline and called for the removal of the Taliban and the establishment of an \u201cinternationally recognized Afghanistan government\u201d to be set up in its place (1).<\/p>\n

Iran and its grip on the Middle East has been the U.S.\u2019s main impediment to controlling the region.\u00a0 They actually wanted to target Iran from the outset and wanted to take Iraq and Afghanistan to set up staging areas on Iran\u2019s borders to invade Iran from two fronts.\u00a0 But their plans and predictions that Iraq was going to fall to U.S. designs with no resistance fell through.<\/p>\n

America has remained active in efforts to destabilize Iran and isolate it by stirring up internal dissent and increasing sanctions against trade with other countries.\u00a0 And its fear of Iran developing nuclear capabilities is not based on fear of an Iranian nuclear attack, but rather of Iran being able to defend itself from an American attack.<\/p>\n

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American Sanctions Are Genocidal in the Face of COVID-19<\/h3>\n

U.S. Sanctions directly impact Iran\u2019s ability to access resources needed to test, treat, and arrest the spread of the novel coronavirus and generate artificial famine, disease, and poverty.\u00a0 A growing protest movement is already underway, with marches in solidarity with Iran.<\/p>\n

The outcome of such fascistic sanctions is known by U.S. officials and deliberate.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen it before, and we\u2019ve seen U.S. officials gloat at the deadly effects on innocents-on innocent children no less.<\/p>\n

Recall the 1991 Gulf War where America deliberately destroyed Iraq\u2019s infrastructure, bombing its sanitation and water treatment facilities, hospitals, etc. (blatant war crimes).\u00a0 Then set up militarily imposed embargos that prevented Iraq from receiving food, medicine, and other basic supplies its people needed to survive in the face of a shattered infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The U.N. documented that over a half million Iraqi children, average age 12, died as a result of these sanctions by just 1996.\u00a0 On \u201c60 Minutes\u201d U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright acknowledged this carnage and smugly stated it was \u201cworth the price\u201d of imposing U.S. domination over Iraq (2).<\/p>\n

Where were all those \u201call lives matter\u201d Americans when their leaders were killing all these innocent Iraqi children (by any reckoning, 500,000 Iraqi children killed is genocide rivaling the Jewish Holocaust)?\u00a0 Where indeed are they now as Iran suffers under similar sanctions as COVID-19 spreads?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s put these proclamations to the test and demand that U.S. sanctions against Iran be lifted.<\/p>\n

Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win!
\nAll Power to the People!<\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Maresca\u2019s full statement to the legislative subcommittee was posted at; http\/\/www.house.gov\/international_relations\/105th\/ap\/wsat212982.htm<\/a><\/h4>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ramsey Clark et al., Challenge to Genocide: Let Iraq Live (Washington D.C: International Action Center 1988)<\/h4>\n

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