Sanctions Policy: Effective or Not?

Published in Jame Jam
(Iran) on 5 December 2010
by Mohammad Safari (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Emmanuel Macintosh. Edited by Mark DeLucas.
When the National Security Council adopted sanctions, and after the U.S. acted unilaterally to impose sanctions, the point was consistently emphasized that sanctions would have no affect on Iran. These statements were made by U.S. and European officials.

At the same time, the question was asked: What options are there other than sanctions? The West and the U.S. have imposed embargoes, time has passed, and they still announce that boycotts against Iran are not effective.

The Zionist regime was in unison in considering the direction taken. They questioned the effect of sanctions from the beginning, insisting on the next option — that is, military action against Iran.

However, many of the parameters of this policy have not been effective against Iran.

Although the sanctions imposed by the West have not had the intended effect, and the officials of our country (Iran) have repeatedly emphasized that necessary arrangements to deal with boycotts have been considered, the important point is that social investigations have shown that the people haven't felt the effect of the sanctions.

However, the change in tone of American officials began with a statement by U.S. Under Secretary of State William Burns. He claimed that the impact of sanctions on Iran is clear.

But this policy of intimidation was not efficient, and now the effect of sanctions as psychological warfare against Iran has begun.

In addition, yesterday, an American diplomat claimed in the same vein that boycotts against Iran’s nuclear program have had an impact, and that now this country faces problems in the nuclear field.

Hillary Clinton has claimed that Iran has suffered from the sanctions and for this reason returned to the negotiating table.

However, the fact that Iran’s nuclear activity is en route to development and continues to be in motion, uninfluenced by boycott propaganda, suggests the conclusion that sanction policies are ineffective and face defeat.


سياست تحريم‌ها ؛ بي‌تاثير يا موثر
جام جم آنلاين: از هنگامي كه تحريم‌هاي شوراي امنيت ملي تصويب شد و پس از آن آمريكا به طور يكجانبه اقدام به اعمال تحريم كرد، همواره بر اين نكته تاكيد مي‌شد كه تحريم‌ها كارساز نخواهد بود و تاثيري بر ايران نخواهد داشت. اين اظهارات از سوي مقامات آمريكايي و اروپايي مطرح مي‌شد.
در همان هنگام تحليل‌ها روي اين نكته سوار بود كه گزينه پس از تحريم‌ها چيست؟

غرب و آمريكا تحريم‌ها را اعمال كرده‌اند و هنوز چندي از روي آن نگذشته، اعلام مي‌كنند كه تحريم‌ها عليه ايران كارساز نخواهد بود.

هم‌آوايي رژيم صهيونيستي در اين راستا نيز قابل تامل بود. آنها با زير سوال بردن تاثير تحريم‌ها از همان ابتدا، اصرار بر گزينه بعدي يعني اقدام نظامي عليه ايران را داشتند.

اما به خاطر بسياري از پارامترها اين سياست عليه ايران كارساز نشد و سياست بي‌تاثيري تحريم‌ها رنگ و روي خود را باخت تا اين كه اين سياست به سياست تاثير تحريم‌ها بر جمهوري اسلامي ايران تبديل شد.

گرچه تحريم‌ها آن‌گونه كه غرب تصور داشت بر ايران تاثير نداشته است و مسوولان كشورمان بارها تاكيد كرده‌اند كه تمهيدات لازم را براي مقابله با تحريم‌ها در نظر گرفته‌اند، نكته مهم، دريافت‌هاي اجتماعي از اين تحريم‌هاست كه نشان مي‌دهد مردم نيز تحريم‌ها را احساس نكرده‌اند.

اما تغيير لحن مقامات آمريكايي، با اظهارات ويليام برنز معاون وزير خارجه آمريكا آغاز شد. وي مدعي شد كه تاثير تحريم‌ها عليه ايران آشكار مي‌شود.

اين اظهارات هنگامي مطرح مي‌شود كه سياست بي تاثيري تحريم‌ها شكست مي‌خورد. سياستي كه در پي تبليغ بي‌تاثيري، با گزينه نظامي مدنظر خواهد بود.

اما اين سياست تهديد و ارعاب كارايي نداشت و اكنون جنگ رواني تاثير تحريم‌ها عليه ايران آغاز شده است.

روز گذشته نيز رئيس دستگاه ديپلماسي آمريكا در ادامه پيگيري سياست «تاثير تحريم» مدعي شد كه تحريم‌ها عليه برنامه هسته‌اي ايران تاثير داشته و اكنون اين كشور با مشكلاتي در حوزه هسته‌اي روبه‌روست.

هيلاري كلينتون ادعا كرده كه ايران از تحريم‌ها رنج مي‌برد و به همين خاطر به پاي ميز مذاكره بازگشته است. با وجود اين كه فعاليت‌هاي هسته‌اي ايران همچنان بر مسير پيشرفت در حال حركت است و بدون توجه به بحث تحريم‌ها كه به منظور تاثيرگذاري بر فعاليت‌هاي صلح‌آميز هسته‌اي ايران به راه خود ادامه مي‌دهد ، سياست تبليغ تاثير تحريم‌ها عليه ايران نيز همچون سياست بي‌تاثير تحريم‌ها با شكست همراه خواهد بود.

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