U.S sanctions Iran via Dubai
Posted by N10452DUBAI — This freewheeling boomtown has always been the place where Iranians go to escape U.S. sanctions. Since U.S. laws stopped the sale of American products to Iran in the 1980s, Iranian traders have made the short boat ride here to buy what they want. When the U.S. Treasury banned key Iranian banks a year ago, Iranian businessmen flocked here, to the financial capital of the Middle East, to open bank accounts.
This article was written back in 2008.
Months later, Dubai-based companies are accused of violating US sanctions on Iran. [Source]
And now Dubai is in its deepest crisis and the biggest loser of all this is Iran.
The Geopolitics Of The Dubai Debt Crisis: It’s Iran vs. The United States
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1. hassouna | December 5th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Al mowto li amWWWiiiikaaaaa!
2. paul | December 5th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
what’s next??? is HA also a victim???
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3. Doc1559 | December 6th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Paul
You are the victim and simply don’t know it. What’s next on the agenda ?? Kill the batrak and blame syria for it and then go to ma7kama duwaliya ?? sar wa2it y2itlo 7adan bi 7ajem al 7ariri w yikhirbo al balad or at least yjarbu yikhirbo al balad..
min attal hariri ya paul ??
4. Doc1559 | December 6th, 2009 at 10:11 am
syria is bad .. syria is bad… Iran is bad.. hahahaha
5. paul | December 6th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Doc,
his murderer.
syria is not bad..iran is not bad…hahaha
6. danny | December 6th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
N,
What the hell happened to our blog? These riff raffs from Dahiye trash loner to nazi to zion; WTF?
7. paul | December 6th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
danny,i
t’s like in switzerland,you give them the finger , they want the hand.
8. hassouna | December 6th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
AmWiiiiKAAaaaa Al shaytan !!!!
Al mowtou li amWWWIiiiiiiiikaaaaAA
9. Doc1559 | December 7th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Paul
his murderer is your murderer.. Watch out my man. I care for you , Lebanon is no Lebanon without the Christians..
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