1) home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
So, no banks nor was the central bank sanctioned. I got that wrong. But, that's why I'm a drunk twitter asshole, and not some world-famous economist or a Fake News journalist.
So, no banks nor was the central bank sanctioned. I got that wrong. But, that's why I'm a drunk twitter asshole, and not some world-famous economist or a Fake News journalist.
2) en.radiofarda.com/a/iran-illegal…
However, Iran's financial sector has been in a crisis for awhile rife with fraud and mismanagement and corruption. Soooo I'm optimistic.
However, Iran's financial sector has been in a crisis for awhile rife with fraud and mismanagement and corruption. Soooo I'm optimistic.
3) However, new sanctions were applied to 14 individuals and organizations (some of them bundled together), so I still have something to ramble about!
4) Sadeq/Sadegh Larijani Head of Iran's Judiciary.
5) The Judiciary is DIRECTLY under the control of the Supreme Leader Khamenei, and Sadeq himself was appointed by Khamenei.
6) I feel like Twitter is in the midst of shadowbanning me again. REGARDLESS! I continue on, because fuck your couch @jack
7) dw.com/en/irans-doubl… Fun facts. There's a huge double standard between politically connected individuals and human rights activists in the justice system of Iran. Also, Sadiq's brother is the head of the Parliament!
"Unconfirmed reports have claimed in recent weeks that Larijani -- part of a powerful political family that includes brothers who are parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani and a senior official on human rights within the judiciary" rferl.org/a/iran-rohani-…
9) "-- controls more than 60 private bank accounts filled with public funds. Iran's state prosecutor has said that all of the judiciary's accounts are in order and that some of the fund transfers have been done with the knowledge of the country's supreme leader."
10) Like peeling a corruption onion.
11) Gholamreza Ziae, who is the director of the Rajaee Shahr Prison for publishing political dissidents. Executions, rape, seems pretty bad man.
13) Alright, nevermind, it gets worse from there. Jesus H Christ. Please, Germany, tell me how you're ok with a country that has a prison where female prisoners are regularly raped? Liberals got anything for me? Y'all are sick fucks by association for condoning this with silence.
14) Boom, hitting liberals with dat SJW logic
15) Let me segway a bit by stating that the most frustrating thing about Obama's bullshit Iran deal was the dropping of SWIFT sanctions. These are sanctions that separated Iranian banks from the 'Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication' npr.org/2012/03/19/148…
16) Those sanctions cut Iran's banks off entirely from interacting with the rest of the world, and led to a lot of the economic struggles they are having today. That is, until they were repealed as part of the Iran deal. reuters.com/article/us-ira…
17) Thanks Obama.
18) Alright, next up, the 'Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Electronic Warfare and Cyber Defense Organization'. We were warned about these guys YEARS ago. nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4…
19) "In addition to hired or acquired cyber capabilities, the Government of Iran is, according to press reports, investing heavily ($1 billion) to develop and build out its own cyberwar capabilities, both offense and defensive."
20) These are the guys that are cutting Iranians off from western media sources, the internet, and keeping us from getting more up to date information about the current state of the Iran protests.
21) The Supreme Council of Cyberspace and The National Cyberspace Center are next up on the list, quite literally the ministry of internet truth.
22) medium.com/@small.media/r… The Supreme Council of Cyberspace is a group created in 2012 and in 2015 granted expanded authority by Khamenei over internet regulation. While the IRGC pulls the plug on the internet, these are the guys that issue the order to.
23) inss.org.il/publication/ir… The National Cyberspace Center is another branch of Iran's overall cyber warfare groups, even if it isn't under a military branch officially. With the aforementioned investment in their cyber capabilities after the Stuxnet worm,
24) Iran's main goal has been waging an internet guerrilla war despite their inferior capabilities, and doing so with several competing organizations. This guerrilla effort also doubles as cyber police.
25) As of right now, anyone talking about or commenting on Iran's protests are part of this larger cyberwarfare effort, and @jack and @TwitterSupport ARE APPARENTLY ON IRAN'S SIDE FOR THAT. Seriously, people, what the hell. You scream about net neutrality then ignore this?
26) Just to continue on that little thought tangent, want to know what the end result of the Obama style Net Neutrality via government control would have been? Exactly what we're seeing in Iran. Competing agencies with regulatory mandates annihilating free speech and human rights
27) Thank you @AjitPaiFCC for stopping THAT train.
28) Ok, next target, Green Wave Technologies. The hell, you ask? Welllllll iranwatch.org/our-publicatio…
29) Green Wave Technologies was part of an effort to circumvent sanctions and provide US-developed ballistic guidance systems to Iran. Yeah.
30) Fanamoj and Rastafann, also mentioned in the sanctions, are previously-sanctioned Iranian companies providing telecommunications, radar, and other such technology to Iranian military forces. Green Wave Technologies sanctions are due to helping Fanamoj and Rastafann evade them
31) Iran Helicopter Support and Renewal Company and Iran Aircraft Industries are the next ones up on the chopping block for sanctions.
32) Iran Helicopter Support and Renewal Company is basically what it sounds like, helping to maintain the Iranian military's helicopter fleet, and also producing under licenses foreign helicopters globalsecurity.org/military/world…
33) The Iran Aircraft Industries (aka SAHA) is a similar setup, but for planes rather than helicopters globalsecurity.org/military/world…
34) This isn't QUITE as dangerous a group as one might expect, given what they have to work on. For example, amongst Iran's attack fighters that are often used, the Saeqeh is the most recent introduced as of 2007... and mostly a knockoff of the Northrop F-5, from 1962...
35) The rest of these are mostly everyone's favorite sanction-breakers, CHINA!!!
36) See, herein lies the problem when dealing with China. Their bureaucracy has grown so large and corrupt, that its almost impossible for them to stop their own companies from busting sanctions. All that the US can do is call China on it and lean on them hard to enforce santions
37) The seized oil tankers to North Korea and these most recent sanctions are good slaps to the wrist. I hope Trump fires off another tweet critiquing China for allowing its companies to help Iran like it has, but I'm not predicting it at this point.
38) state.gov/documents/orga… Here's a pdf of the executive order itself being used for these sanctions. Again, I was wrong in hoping Magnitsky sanctions would be used, but I guess the precedent was to use this executive order due to it dealing with Iran and its WMDs.
39) On another positive note, these sanctions are being levied in lieu of the Iran Deal getting shut down, but Trump has made it clear this is the last time the waiver will be provided. 3 months from now, April, we'll see the end of the Iran Deal hopefully.
40) With any hope, with the Iran Deal ended we'll see the return of the SWIFT sanctions on Iran's banks. Or the regime ended entirely before then.
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