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US ambassador slams Norway for praising bypass of Iran sanctions as six more countries join group
2019-12-01
[Jpost] US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell on Friday savaged the Norwegian ambassador to Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
Lars Nordrum for lauding a Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an system to circumvent American sanctions targeting Tehran for its illicit nuclear activities and terrorism.

"Terrible timing ‐ why fund the Iranian regime while it’s killing the Iranian people and shutting off the Internet?" tweeted Grenell, the most high-profile US ambassador in Europe. "You should be standing for human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
not funding the abusers."

The UK-based human rights watchdog Amnesia Amnesty International said in November that at least 143 protesters were killed in Iran during demonstrations against the regime due to gas price increases and opposition to the holy manal regime system.

Nordrum tweeted that "We join INSTEX with the E3 to facilitate trade with Iran and preserve the JCPOA."

The JCPOA is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the formal name for the Iran nuclear deal that is supposed to curb Tehran’s nuclear weapons ambitions in exchange for sanctions release.

Six European countries join Iran sanctions-busting mechanism

[IsraelTimes] La Belle France, Germany and UK welcome Belgium, Netherlands and others to INSTEX, mean to allow Iran to continue selling oil despite US restrictions.

Gay Paree, London and Berlin on Saturday welcomed six new European countries to the INSTEX barter mechanism, which is designed to circumvent US sanctions against trade with Iran by avoiding use of the dollar.

"As founding shareholders of the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), La Belle France, Germany and the United Kingdom warmly welcome the decision taken by the governments of Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, to join INSTEX as shareholders," the three said in a joint statement.

The Gay Paree-based INSTEX functions as a clearing house allowing Iran to continue to sell oil and import other products or services in exchange.

The system has not yet enabled any transactions.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  Trump will turn his attention to European trade in 2020. Thank you for providing another club.
Posted by: Unaitle Panda6599   2019-12-01 11:21  

#4  ...Someone should suggest to POTUS that we reduce defense and aid spending to Norway by one dollar for every dollar they make/facilitate with the Iranians. That might get their attention right quick...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-12-01 10:40  

#3  All about the dollars. Always about the dollars.
Posted by: Regular joe   2019-12-01 10:24  

#2  What does Iran have that is so important? Nothing but blackmail.
Posted by: gorb   2019-12-01 09:37  

#1  And the US bankrolls NATO for what reason...?
Posted by: DooDahMan   2019-12-01 09:09  

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