“Sparking increased profits and growing inequality, sanctions facilitated a structural transformation of the Iranian economy that favoured those who control capital.” The poor are hurt most, the richest get richer
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51