内塔尼亚胡指责伊朗的一切. 图像源: knowyourmeme.com

今天 76 美国参议院代表致奥巴马的信 呼吁加强制裁 伊朗经济. 这封信是在参议院夏季休会之前发出的，意味着两天前众议院通过了新的国会制裁，需要参议院确认。. 新的制裁措施针对伊朗几乎所有的对外贸易和石油出口，使伊朗的石油收入几乎为零.

经济制裁 — 根据国际法， 集体惩罚和战争罪被视为 — 它不仅影响了人们的日常生活和舒适，在某些情况下甚至导致伊朗公民死亡。. 制裁，加上国内管理人员的低效和无能，使伊朗的生活和治疗成本飙升，以至于许多伊朗人正在失去基本必需品和需求。. 这些制裁适用于与伊朗核计划没有逻辑联系的领域，但对普通民众施加了沉重压力。. هدف از اعمال این تحریمها، علاوه بر متوقف کردن برنامه اتمی ایران، افزایش نارضایتی عمومی و جلوگیری از سرمایه گذاری ایران در حوزه هایی است که آمریکایی ها و شرکای اسراییلی شان نمی پسندند.

Photoshopped image of Netanyahu drawing Iran's red line on the Looney Tunes cartoon bomb at the United Nations. 图像源: 阿拉比亚.

John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and one of the perpetrators of the military attack on Iraq, 相信 那是: "Israel should have attacked Iran yesterday," which may mean that Israel has already suffered a great deal from not attacking militarily. Bolton's remarks came a few days after Benjamin Netanyahu warned in an interview with CBS television that Iran was only a few weeks away from his famous red line. The story of Netanyahu's red line is almost a year ago, when during his annual speech at the United Nations, a picture of a bomb (Similar to the bombs of the Looney Tunes cartoon series) to the United Nations and drew a red line on the bomb to determine the extent of uranium enrichment. According to Mr. Netanyahu's red line, Iran must acquire a nuclear weapon in order to achieve a nuclear weapon. 250 It should have a kilogram of uranium of 20 percent so that it can enrich it to a higher level whenever it wants, and ultimately provide the cost needed to build a weapon. Netanyahu had threatened that he would not allow Iran to reach this point. Now, after a year, Netanyahu Yesterday he said that Iran is approaching this point and now 190 has a kilogram of uranium in its possession, and within just a few weeks of the 250 kilograms, and in this way, he implicitly threatened Iran with a military attack: "Iran should know that they will not be allowed to cross this red line."