omairhr
February 3, 2009, 6:15pm
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This is not a badge of honor to SURVIVE sanctions.
Sanctions are nothing but a speeding ticket for a driver who IGNORED the law. The more tickets you get, the worst your record be, and more fines and higher insurance will be your future.
Surely you will survive, but why to violate the law to begin with?
Similarly in the global village every government has to obey the global laws. If they violate them, they pay it some way or the other.
Oh BTW, one criminal cannot say that I committed a crime because another person was committing a crime too. That’s never a good excuse in front of the judge.
moreover Iran could have spend its hard earned petro-dollars on the reducing high inflation, jobless among the youth etc. Instead a major portion of that money goes to waste due to the sanctions.
Is it illegal to defend oneself?
If there is a ‘global law’ that says that USA and Israel can have nuclear arms but Iran cannot, I have doubts over that legal system!
Please provide figures to prove that Iran’s economy is so bad.
Look at:
PRC, India Lagging in Economic Well Being, Living Standards - Study
These are slightly older (2007) figures but the only ones I found comparing asian economies in terms of macro (GDP per capita) and micro (Price level index) indeces.
GDP per capita in Iran is 5 times as much as India and one of the lowest price level index (inflation).