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cstanleytech

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12. What got the ball rolling and led to sanctions though was Iran trying to develop a nuke.

Reply to rickyhall (Reply #11)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 09:41 PM

Mar 2020

Foolish of them really as nukes are outdated as far as a show of power when you have something like a large oil reserve that you can sell to earn $$$ and use that to influence other countries.

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Iran asks IMF for $5bn to fight coronavirus as cases reach 10,000 [View all] yaesu Mar 2020 OP

Holy cow, we knew it was going to be bad there, but to see "10,000" in writing is Leghorn21 Mar 2020 #1

earlier was news of mass graves being dug spotted with satellites, and they have never asked yaesu Mar 2020 #2

Image from space: tblue37 Mar 2020 #3

I hold dump partially responsible for sanctions. rickyhall Mar 2020 #4

I do too and his tricky dick republicans. nt yaesu Mar 2020 #6

Trump is responsible for alot of things but I don't find him at fault for this. cstanleytech Mar 2020 #8

Iran hasn't the money to fight the emergency because the sanctions deprive them of it. rickyhall Mar 2020 #11

What got the ball rolling and led to sanctions though was Iran trying to develop a nuke. cstanleytech Mar 2020 #12

That's the story all right. rickyhall Mar 2020 #13

Its the truth not the story. Now were they really trying when Trump came into office? I doubt it. cstanleytech Mar 2020 #14

Weapons of Mass Destruction. rickyhall Mar 2020 #16

We are now where they were 4 weeks ago bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 #5

and on another front, Italy, which has seen a thousand deaths so far, has more doctors and yaesu Mar 2020 #7

Perhaps Iran could divert money going to foreign adventures. Midnight Writer Mar 2020 #9

We may need to do the same. nt yaesu Mar 2020 #10

We dont even need to divert any going overseas we could divert some of the hundreds of billions cstanleytech Mar 2020 #15