Would Bombing Iran Be More Humane Than Killing Iranians With Sanctions?

In 2001, the writer Chuck Sudetic visited Iraq and then wrote in Mother Jones about what he saw: namely, that the US-led sanctions regime "killed more civilians than all the chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons used in human history".

Ridiculous.

Especially when the guns will swing around at the more vulnerable syrians.

"Six years ago, when America and Europe were putting in place the first raft of measures to press Iran to come clean over its nuclear ambitions, the talk was of "smart" sanctions.

The West, it was stressed, had no quarrel with the Iranian people—only with a regime that seemed bent on getting a nuclear bomb, or at least the capacity for making one. Yet, as sanctions have become increasingly punitive in the face of Iran's intransigence, it is ordinary Iranians who are paying the price.

"On October 1st and 2nd Iran's rial lost more than 25% of its value against the dollar. Since the end of last year it has depreciated by over 80%, most of that in just the past month. Despite subsidies intended to help the poor, prices for staples, such as milk, bread, rice, yogurt and vegetables, have at least doubled since the beginning of the year. Chicken has become so scarce that when scant supplies become available they prompt riots. On October 3rd police in Tehran fired tear-gas at people demonstrating over the rial's collapse. The city's main bazaar closed because of the impossibility of quoting accurate prices. . . .

"Unemployment is thought to be around three times higher than the official rate of 12%, and millions of unskilled factory workers are on wages well below the official poverty line of 10m rials (about $300) a month."

Pervasive unemployment, inflation, medicine shortages, and even food riots have been reported elsewhere.

Everyone hates Brief because he wants to nuke Iran... What you fools didn't know is that you're the inhumane monsters, not him!!!

If Obama cared about the people of Iran he'd lob some freedom bombs their way...

How about neither?

Well that's not a choice, either or..

Of course it is a choice. The choice is no war. These sanctions are already an act of war, but they are really the last move the US has. If Iran can survive hyperinflation, then there is nothing besides going into war that the US can do. But it can not go into war, because then Iran would block the straights of Hurmoz and the US in turn would experience hyperinflation, except that with its shit economy and the fact it is the center of the financial universe the whole world will go in disarray, and the $US would lose its reserve currency status forever and along with it the US would lose its economic prowess.

So, best not do any kind of shit really if you want things not to go kaboom for the world.