Saturday, January 18, 2020

Trump increases sanctions on Iran for killing protesters--Dems upset


President Trump isn't playing games with Iran.

The Islamic so-called Republic, [designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)] has killed about 1,500 protesters under the direction of the late Cassem Soleimani. Our President had Soleimani destroyed like the rabid weasel that he was.

Now the Administration is tightening up the sanctions even more against Iran as Brian Hook, the Special Envoy to Iran made the announcement on Friday. Specifically, the sanctions are against a top general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

“The United States is listing IRGC Brigadier General Hassan Shahvarpour under section 7031c visa sanctions. General Shahvarpour committed gross violations of human rights against protestors in Mahshahr. He oversaw the massacre of 148 helpless Iranians in the Mahshahr region last November,” Hook announced. “General Shahvarpour was in command of units responsible for the violent crackdown and lethal repression around Mahshahr. This is the first designation on an Iranian regime official being taken under the State Department authority from section 7031c authorities.”

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was livid over the new sanctions. "Why are we allowing this president to do whatever he wants to do to a dedicated military man who is a Shah? Isn't a Shah supposed to be a holy man? I don't know what a varpour is, but a Shah is an important dude. Does Forty-Five think he can get away with putting sanctions on a holy man? Not on my watch. Impeach Forty-Five. Impeach Forty-Five. Impeach Forty-Five . . . " she continued as "reporter" Jim Acosta from the Compromised News Network (CNN) cheered along with her.

Rep. Jerry "The Eyebrow" Nadler was asked by CNN what he thought of the increased sanctions.

"How can we expect things to improve with Iran if this president punishes their leaders by freezing their assets? This is disgraceful. We need to be nicer to Iran  and they will be nicer to us, and we need to move forward with impeachment and restore the republic."

In the background one can hear Maxine Waters and Jim Acosta chanting "Impeach Forty-FIve!"

Hook explained the reason for the increased sanctions.
“Since the violent crackdown on protests last November, the United States has sanctioned two judges and eight other regime officials for their roles in brutalizing the Iranian people. We are continuing to review all information we receive from the Iranian people and will continue to hold more regime officials responsible for human rights violations.” 
Hook continued.
“Over the past week, many Iranians took to the streets again to protest a corrupt government that lies to them. President Trump recognized their courage with his tweets in Farsi this past week standing with the Iranian people. We call on all nations to join our lead, particularly by sanctioning Iranian officials for human rights violations.”
"Trump don't speak no Farsi," Maxine Waters opined. "Impeach Forty-Five!"

Hook continued even more.
“The Iranian regime is in a deep economic crisis. Back in May of 2018, shortly after leaving the Iran nuclear deal, Secretary Pompeo said that we will deny revenue to Iran’s clerics who use it to fund terrorism and violence across the region. He said that Iran’s expansionist foreign policy would no longer be cost-free, and that the economic price would be severe. We have succeeded in raising the costs for Iran, and the regime is badly managing an economic crisis of its own making.
“Iran’s oil exports are down by more than 2 million barrels per day, reducing Iran’s revenue from oil by more than 80%. This amounts to a loss of around $50 billion annually. Today the question people are asking is whether the regime has the competence to avoid a banking disaster and hyperinflation. The Iranian economy this year could contract by as much as 14 percent.”

The move by the State Department comes after the Treasury Department announced additional sanctions “against any individual owning, operating, trading with, or assisting sectors of the Iranian economy, including construction, manufacturing, textiles, and mining.”

The U.S. State Department provided the following additional information about IRGC Brigadier General Hassan Shahvarpour:

An individual designated under Section 7031(c), as well as their immediate family members, is ineligible for entry into the United States.

Various open source media, along with statements by Iranian officials and information submitted by the Iranian people to the Rewards for Justice tip-line present a consistent timeline and scope of the killings in Mahshahr. They also indicate that the excessive use of force against protestors was perpetrated, at least in part, by Khuzestan Province’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards.

By nature of his position, Shahravar likely had knowledge of the operation to suppress the protests and the subsequent gross violations of human rights that were committed by his subordinates. Shahvarpour failed to prevent or stop his subordinates from committing the killings that took place in Mahshahr.

There is no information indicating that Shahvarpour initiated an investigation into these gross violations of human rights.

House Speaker Nancy "Dancing Dentures" Pelosi (D-CA) was asked by Jim Acosta of CNN what she thought of the new sanctions.

"He [President Trump] can do anything he wants; it doesn't matter because for the rest of his miserable life, this president is going to be impeached. There is nothing he can do to change that. No sanctions, no increase in job growth. No assassinations of honorable military leaders [Soleimani] can change the fact the he is impeached for life. You know, Hillary Clinton should be in the White House. And Stacy Abrams should be the governor of Georgia. Al Gore won too. So did Douglas, but Lincoln somehow was declared president. It isn't fair. It just isn't fair."

"Impeach Forty-Five!" someone sounding like Maxine Waters yelled in the background.


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