{"id":45629,"date":"2019-04-25T07:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T12:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45629"},"modified":"2019-04-25T07:36:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T12:36:01","slug":"pepe-escobar-war-on-iran-calling-americas-bluff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45629","title":{"rendered":"PEPE ESCOBAR: War on Iran & Calling America\u2019s Bluff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PEPE ESCOBAR: War on Iran & Calling America\u2019s Bluff<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Vast swathes of the West seem not to realize that if the Strait of Hormuz is shut down a global depression will follow, writes Pepe Escobar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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T<\/strong>he Trump administration once again has graphically demonstrated that in the young, turbulent 21st <\/sup>century, \u201cinternational law\u201d and \u201cnational sovereignty\u201d already belong to the Realm of the Walking Dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if a deluge of sanctions against a great deal of the planet was not enough, the latest \u201coffer you can\u2019t refuse\u201d conveyed by a gangster posing as diplomat, Consul Minimus Mike Pompeo, now essentially orders the whole planet to submit to the one and only arbiter of world trade: Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First the Trump administration unilaterally smashed a multinational, UN-endorsed agreement, the JCPOA, or Iran nuclear deal. Now the waivers that magnanimously allowed eight nations to import oil from Iran without incurring imperial wrath in the form of sanctions will expire on May 2 and won\u2019t be renewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw from the Iran deal upheld his highest obligation: to protect the safety and security of the American people. Why Iran sanctions are necessary: http:\/\/45.wh.gov\/SUUPiW<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eight nations are a mix of Eurasian powers: China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Italy and Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from the trademark toxic cocktail of hubris, illegality, arrogance\/ignorance and geopolitical\/geo\u2013<\/strong>economic infantilism inbuilt in this foreign policy decision, the notion that Washington can decide who\u2019s allowed to be an energy provider to emerging superpower China does not even qualify as laughable. Much more alarming is the fact that imposing a total embargo of Iranian oil exports is no less than an act of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimate Neocon Wet Dream <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PEPE ESCOBAR: War on Iran & Calling America\u2019s Bluff Vast swathes of the West seem not to realize that if the Strait of Hormuz is shut down a global depression will follow, writes Pepe Escobar. . . . . . The Trump administration once again has graphically demonstrated that in the young, turbulent 21st century, \u201cinternational […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[6963,441,4076,9311],"class_list":["post-45629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-iran","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45630,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45629\/revisions\/45630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}