June 22, 2018
The head of state broadcasting, who was just recently sanctioned by the United States, says the reason Washington is sanctioning Iranians these days is to try to delay the collapse of the United States.
“The United States has been overwhelmed by the illusion that by imposing successive sanctions and mounting pressure on the Iranian people, it can find a way to slow down its own collapse, ignoring the fact that this process only boosts the unity and solidarity of the great Iranian people,” Abdol-Ali Ali-Askari said in a statement released June 3, four days after the US Treasury Department sanctioned him and several others for “human rights abuses” and “censorship.”
The sanctions freeze any assets Ali-Askari may have in the United States.
Ali-Askari said the US Treasury Department was under the impression that by imposing sanctions it can prevent the collapse of the US government due to the mounting US debt.
“At the present time and in the future, the US Treasury Department will be a place where countless creditors from across the world will be claiming their $21 trillion in debt owed by the United States as the most indebted government in the world, though the creditors and those who have lost their money [through the US government’s debt] will soon have to mourn over the corpse of this giant monster,” Ali-Askari said.
Actually, the United States doesn’t have the largest debt in the world when debt is measured as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP). US indebtedness is closing in on 100 percent of GDP. But Japan’s debt is 225 percent of GDP and St. Kitt’s, a Caribbean island state, is around 200 percent. The United States ranks 11th in the world.
Also, contrary to what Ali-Askari said, no one has lost any money, as the US government has never defaulted on any bonds in its quarter millennium of issuing bonds going back to the American Revolution.
The broadcasting chief said US sanctions would only create new opportunities for Iran and help it grow economically, adding, “The result of this process will be encouraging Iran to take advantage of all its national power tools to punish America.”
He said the sanctions will also “make the resistance front in the region more resolute and determined to thwart conspiracies and speed up the annihilation of the Zionist regime and also to punish US allies in the Middle East as traitors to the Islamic world.”
Ali-Askari also described the sanctions imposed on him as a sign of US anger upon seeing its media monopoly shattered as “it has been discredited time and again before public opinion in Iran and the world.”