Comments on: Paralysing Mullahs' Regime

By: ナンパテレホンセックス

ナンパテレホンセックス — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:31:25 +0000

By: ahmed

ahmed — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:46:19 +0000

its sad to hear such people who have iranian roots speeking like this…sorry to say this, but for me your point of view is not valid…simple as that, I don’t know you but from what i see it seems that you are someone who has been borned in europe or you are living there since long time..so its not strang to hear you saying this.

By: jahanshah Rashidian

jahanshah Rashidian — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:32:50 +0000

Whatever the track record of sanctions against dictatorial regimes, the international community must impose them as morale and legal punishments. Oil as a lucrative trade for energy hungry international firms should not be dismal, if the Iranian Diaspora highlights it, fuel embargo will weaken the IRI and creates better conditions for people to topple the regime.

Nevertheles, sanctions are a factor to desabilise dictators, but not a determined weapon–added to sanctions, Iranian people’s struggles are the determined factors.

Sanctions worked to topple Apartheid, and weakened Saddam, but were not effective in cuba because the regime had popular support. By contrast the IRI is hated by an increasing majority of Iranians.

India makes unfair deals with a barbaric regime which wastes its national resources to oppress Iranian people snce three decades. In its track of illegitimacy, now this regime carries a coup d’état and cannot be ignored by the biggest democracy, India. China and Russia are not democratic states and cannot be expected to do the same. Furthermore, they do not export gasoline to Iran, they buy IRI oil and gas under official market price, in turn to support the survival of Mullahs.

By: Mohammad Memarian (Iran)

Mohammad Memarian (Iran) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:58:37 +0000

sanction on fuel supplies to Iran … is now widely expected by … Iranians …

Do not speak on behalf of Iranians please. Oil sanctions can only paralyse daily life of the people, not ‘the oppressive machine’ of the regime, to mention your words. Iran imports 36 (out of 75) million litres from India. Right. 39 million litres produced domestically is not enough to keep that machine running?

By: Marian Kechlibar

Marian Kechlibar — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:30:33 +0000

I am no friend of the mullahocracy, but I think that oil embargo against Iran would result just in one thing: turning the Iranian regime into a complete lapdog of China. China needs oil and is strong enough to ignore any US-initiated embargo. Already these regimes are quite good “buddies”.

I cannot remember any single trade embargo which would bring down a totalitarian regime:
- embargo against Cuba, 50 years now, no regime change,
- embargo against North Korea, 60 years now, no regime change,
- embargo against Saddams Iraq, 13 years, and it finally still took a military invasion to bring him down. The embargo certainly weakened his army, but not to the point of successful domestic revolution.