Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the US is using economic sanctions and other pressures to overthrow his country’s clerical establishment.
While the US may publicly deny this, it seems Rouhani is stating the obvious. But the US government should be careful what it wishes for. Any overthrow of the current government could well see far more extreme leaders step into power. Men — yes, they’ll all be men — who want little more than to see the west in flames.
As RAW reports, President Rouhani told the northern province of Gilan this week:
‘Iran is in economic and psychological war with America and its allies. Their aim is to change the regime but their wish will not come true.’
Tensions between these two nations heightened with Trump’s call to pull his state out of the world powers’ 2015 agreement which was curbing Iran’s nuclear activity.
But Trump saw flaws in the deal, noting there has been no measures to curb Iran’s missile program or any means of support for proxies in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq.
After pulling out, Washington then reinstated pre-deal sanctions on Iran, which had an immediate negative effect. Iran’s currency crashed, inflation soared and a mass influx of foreign investors came in to help modernise the desperate economy.
Needless to say, Iran has not taken the withdrawal well.
And neither do many of the deal’s signatories, including Britain, Germany, France, Russia and China. They felt the reinstated sanctions were not warranted, and are even seeking non-dollar ways to conduct business with the struggling Tehran.
Read the article in The Australian Tribune.