Sanctions contre un fantôme : le geste symbolique de l'Europe à l'encontre de l'Iran
https://sonar21.com/sanctioning-a-ghost-europes-empty-gesture-against-iran/ https://etouffoir-blogspot-com.translate.goog/2026/09/sanctions-contre-un-fantome-le-geste.html?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=hl&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr 3 September 2026 by Larry C. Johnson US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced today that the European Union has “officially joined” the American sanctions campaign against Iran — Operation Economic Outcast — and framed Tehran’s choice in the usual absolutes: complete global isolation and a subsistence economy, or a path back to normalcy. It made a commanding headline. It is a hollow one. You cannot embargo a trading partner you have already stopped trading with, and in economic substance that is precisely what Europe did years ago. Today it merely issued a press release about it. The trade Europe is threatening to withdraw barely exists One number frames the entire affair. In 2025 the whole of the European Union traded about €3.7 ...