CSH is trying to cut off Iran access to money

Currently, sanctions are directed against financial institutions abroad, which have commercial ties with the Central Bank of Iran. As a result of these sanctions, Iran, according to estimates, loses about $ 63 million daily. The new package of measures, which already on August 1 can be approved by the House of Representatives, is aimed at complicating the calculations of oil transactions even more to Iran. He will also affect enterprises that cooperate with Tehran in the field of oil and extraction of uranium, and companies that sell or rent oil tankers or insure her oil vessels.

“The United States, introducing these sanctions, demonstrate their determination not to allow Iran to step over the nuclear threshold,” said Ilean Ros -Latin , Chairman of the Committee on International Relations of the House of Republican Republican.

“The moment for the announcement of preparing additional sanctions against Iran is apparently not by chance,” said Michael Rubin , an analyst at the American Enterprise Institute. - The report of the State Department published on July 31 once again confirmed that Iran is a leading sponsor of terrorism in the world; Defense Minister Leon Panetta proceeds to the new round of consultations with Israel on Iran, in addition, recently nuclear negotiations with Tehran did not give any results. So, it seems, both the Congress and the administration came to the conclusion that it was time to increase the pressure on the Iranian regime.

Israel claims that the sanctions have not yet braked the movement of Iran to create nuclear weapons. Leon Panetta, for his part, is sure that sanctions can work if you give them time.

“In fact,” says Michael Rubin, “the main purpose of new sanctions is to close loopholes in the sanctions of the actors. For example, a company that re -register Iranian vessels, or companies, which bypassing the ban on monetary settlements on oil transactions, transfer gold reserves to the Central Bank of Iran will be punished. Let's see if the White House will go to stop all these tricks.

The logic of the pre -election presidential struggle, according to Michael Rubin, should dictate this decision to the White House. Moreover, experts believe that this time the votes of the vote of the absolute majority of lawmakers will vote for the overlap of financial loopholes. Thus, the Obama administration will not have the opportunity to achieve the exclusion from the sanctions regime of many leading trading partners of Iran - what she managed to do in the previous round of penal measures.

According to observers, comprehensive sanctions regarding Iran’s energy sector, given its extreme dependence on oil and gas exports, could put the country's economy on the brink of collapse, sharply complicate the further financing of nuclear developments and lead to a collapse of living standards, which would even more discredit the regime in the eyes of the population.