Embargo
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Iran’s economy has struggled ever since the Islamic Revolution, partly because of the economic
embargo
imposed by the United States three decades ago.
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And when Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, Israel feared an Iraqi victory and actively helped Iran by selling it arms and providing it with spare parts for Iran's American weaponry at a moment when Iran was very vulnerable because of an American arms
embargo
that Israel was more than happy to violate.
In 1973, with the oil
embargo
and the closing of the gold window, that was the end of America.
But this cheerleading is not the case where Europe's economic interests are at stake: it is enough to look at the EU's refusal to join the
embargo
against Cuba, the strength of Germany's reaction to the merger of America's two airplane manufacturers Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas, or the determination with which the EU fifteen are pushing forward with monetary union.
When the European Union last year considered lifting its symbolic arms
embargo
against China, none of the governments driving the proposal bothered to consider that this, too, would be symbolic, sending a message all over Asia that Europe was putting its political weight behind Chinese regional policies.
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