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Hur väl funkar det att fortsätta med sanktioner när andra länder inte följer dem?
NK handlar med Kina och Ryssland, Iran handlar med Kina och Ryssland samt har en dialog med EU.
Det är inte så mycket som är ändrat för NK och när det kommer till Iran så framstår USA som opålitliga och semi handlingsförlamade.
Hur funkar det med att mytomanen slutar ljuga?
Fakta:
- Iran förlorade minst 10% av BNP pga nya sanktioner och det kan bli värre.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-...6269?mod=rsswn
Trump’s Pressure Is Weighing Heavily on Iran
Sanctions depress oil sales, taking heavy toll on economy; unclear where strategy is headed
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You think you have trouble at work? It could be worse. You could be the government official in charge of Iran’s budget.
It is becoming increasingly clear just how effectively the Trump administration’s campaign of economic sanctions is shredding the Iranian government’s balance sheet and damaging the underlying economy. You may agree or disagree with the strategy, and where it is taking things is unclear, but its impact is no longer in doubt.
While precise figures are elusive because some black-market trading persists, Iranian oil exports likely have been reduced to about 200,000 barrels a day, and actually were lower than that at some points this summer. That’s down from roughly 2.5 million barrels a day when President Trump announced in May 2018 that the U.S. was withdrawing from the nuclear deal President Barack Obama and other world leaders negotiated with Iran, and began imposing new sanctions to stop companies and countries from buying Iranian oil.
Worse yet for Iran, the price of the oil has dropped at the same time, to $56 a barrel now from $69 a year ago. So Iran is selling a lot less oil at a lower price.
Consider that the budget that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani unveiled last December envisioned selling 1 million to 1.5 million barrels of oil daily and you’ll get some sense of the squeeze Iran now is feeling.
The ripple effects are spreading out across the economy. The International Monetary Fund estimates the Iranian economy will shrink 6% this year. Meanwhile, a declining Iranian currency is driving up inflation; consumer prices will climb 37.2% this year, the IMF estimates.
- NK
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...-1990s-famine/
North Korea's economy shrinks by most since 1990s famine
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North Korea’s economy shrank last year by the most since the peak of its 1990s famine, as international sanctions make it harder for Kim Jong Un to feed his people while developing nuclear weapons.
Gross domestic product contracted 4.1 percent in 2018, according to estimates from South Korea’s central bank. This marks the worst performance since 1997 when a series of droughts, floods and botched economic policies caused a deadly famine. GDP shrank 3.5 percent in 2017.
North Korea’s exports plunged 86 percent to just $240 million, while imports fell 31 percent, the Seoul-based Bank of Korea said Friday. About 90 percent of North Korean shipments go to China, the country’s biggest ally. China has beefed up its enforcement of sanctions since Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test in 2017.
The annual report highlights the cost of defiance as North Korea holds on to nuclear weapons development despite tightening sanctions. Kim this week resumed launching ballistic missiles and unveiled the country’s largest submarine yet, even though just weeks earlier he met with U.S. President Donald Trump to rekindle nuclear talks.
“Sanctions have clearly bitten North Korea,” said Kim Suk-jin, a researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification. “It shows prominently in the drop in exports.”
Detta är enligt lögnhalsarna "få fria händer"
Fredshjälten Trump vill inte ha något krig, men vill Iran (eller NK) få bort de extremt hårda sanktioner Trump infört mot dem, måste de börja samtala på riktigt