New US Sanctions on Iran Could Be Just the Start

Posted by | February 4, 2017 16:30 | Filed under: Politics

Via Voice of America:

The United States took its first steps in backing up tough talk about Iran, slapping new sanctions on 13 individuals and 12 entities linked to Tehran’s ballistic missile program and its proxies across the Middle East. The targets include Iranian support networks in China and the United Arab Emirates that have been working to help Tehran…

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By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

31 responses to New US Sanctions on Iran Could Be Just the Start

  1. Hirightnow February 4th, 2017 at 16:44

    Just tweeted Alan about this…anyone who could PM him or Dave, please do so.

    • Carla Akins February 4th, 2017 at 17:09

      Done

      • Buford2k11 February 4th, 2017 at 17:34

        what happened?

        • Suzanne McFly February 4th, 2017 at 20:30

          Someone left a message saying we have been hacked.

      • mea_mark February 4th, 2017 at 18:03

        Did you get through to Dave?

    • dave-dr-gonzo February 4th, 2017 at 19:56

      On it. Looks like a number of sites have been hit.

      • mea_mark February 4th, 2017 at 20:04

        Just wondering, is your email for disqus the one I can use to contact you when something like this happens?

      • burqa February 4th, 2017 at 21:48

        …………………..we better go to the mattresses………..

  2. StoneyCurtisll February 4th, 2017 at 17:44

    And?

    • Larry Schmitt February 4th, 2017 at 18:04

      When I googled it, I found a whole series of web sites with the same message on them. No indication that anything else happened. They posted some videos on Youtube, with no sound, but they don’t make any sense to me.

      • Mike February 4th, 2017 at 18:16

        Grandpa, he’s a a coder showing how he jumps a site. He’s good, but not like Grucifer and the other apt’s.
        I think you can buy some of his tools from a link in the vid.

      • Hirightnow February 4th, 2017 at 18:16

        Apparently, they’ve been a busy bunch of Turkish and/or Russians. there’s a whole umpteen page list of sites this has happened to, and some supposition that it has to do with the Gallery protocol/software used by bunches of sites.

      • StoneyCurtisll February 4th, 2017 at 18:21

        Same here…
        Nothing to fear, nothing to worry about…

  3. robert February 4th, 2017 at 18:54

    Maybe this is a parody from the right about jumping firewalls

  4. StoneyCurtisll February 4th, 2017 at 19:38

    more to the issues…
    This is what Trump wants to ‘make america great again’ will look like…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y-CFGtNl7k
    back room abortions…

  5. arc99 February 4th, 2017 at 20:26

    I think it is a significant detail that Iran waited until after President Obama left office before engaging in what is apparently a violation of the agreement.

    Now, Dear Leader Trump can show everyone how tough he is and rip up the agreement which in my personal opinion is what the Iranians want. I doubt that China will abide by any sanctions and will buy all the Iranian oil they can get.

    Admittedly it is pure conjecture as to why Iran would deliberately violate the agreement less than a week after Mr. Obama left office. But I think it is reasonable conjecture that the agreement was more effective than right wingers would have you believe, and the Iranians were looking for a quick way out, sanctions be damned.

    • mea_mark February 4th, 2017 at 20:38

      Little donald probably, unknowingly violated some part of the agreement. Nobody wants to say though because it’s embarrassing and nobody wants to hurt poor little donalds ego.

      • burqa February 4th, 2017 at 21:46

        ……………..he thought Bowling Green is in Iran………..

    • burqa February 4th, 2017 at 21:45

      It’s also a dog whistle to his base. He knows they want to see him romping and stomping around, talking like a tough guy.

    • amersham1046 February 5th, 2017 at 17:47

      and obtain American technology thru Chinese controlled companies

  6. Hirightnow February 4th, 2017 at 21:25

    Props and thanks to dave-dr-gonzo for the fix.

    • Carla Akins February 5th, 2017 at 04:57

      and thanks for the heads up. :-)

      • Hirightnow February 5th, 2017 at 14:49

        :)

        • burqa February 5th, 2017 at 15:35

          Huh?
          Wha happen?
          Did I miss something?

          • Hirightnow February 5th, 2017 at 19:23

            Somebody managed to replace the original article with their own test. dave-dr-gonzo took quick care of it.

            • mea_mark December 3rd, 2017 at 20:19

              Hey, we have been wondering about you. Some of us are hanging out at http://deepstatenation.com/ and would like to know how you are doing. Can you drop in and say hi?

  7. Mensa Member February 4th, 2017 at 21:38

    Russia is dropping bombs on Ukraine and Trump passively does nothing. Iran tests a weapon and Trump acts all macho.

    This smells of diversion.

    • oldfart February 5th, 2017 at 15:06

      Ding ding ding !

    • fahvel February 7th, 2017 at 12:09

      the psychopathic administration in place in the usa now and the previous and the previous make the aggressive behaviors of small countries look like a board game. The usa is responsible for more arbitrary deaths of individuals than all the so called terrorist organizations combined.

  8. Foundryman February 5th, 2017 at 11:41

    Trump can’t be trusted or believed enough to support any foreign policy with any other country including Iran. They are in a hurry to start a war with anyone they can, once they do that, their fascist domestic agenda will go under the radar.
    There is nothing in the nuclear agreement that prevents them from developing defensive weapons. Trump claiming this is a violation is a lie!

  9. Hirightnow February 5th, 2017 at 19:27

    Media coverage of Trump…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM01v_vVnbg

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