News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a swift and decisive response to the drone and missile attack on Israeli targets over the weekend, President Joe Biden retaliated against Iran by attaching a note to the next pallet of cash that reads “PLEASE DO NOT USE FOR TERRORISM.”
The note, which was translated into Farsi, was placed in a clearly visible location on the next U.S. shipment of cash being sent to Tehran, with the Biden administration confident that its stern tone would ensure the Iranian regime would know not to use any of the billions of U.S. dollars on terrorism.
“Listen up, folks,” Biden said in a brief statement announcing the retaliatory measure. “We’re serious. Just as serious as… as serious as… we’re just as… we’re… well, anyway, in all seriousness. I have personally notified the Iranian government that they are not allowed to use any of this money for terrorism. So, if they’re thinking about doing it… I’ll just… I’ll say… I’m saying… don’t.”
When reached for comment, a spokesman for the Iranian regime expressed willingness to adhere to the directions of the note. “Ah, yes,” the spokesman said as laughter could be heard in the background of the phone call. “The directions are very clear. We will not use any of these billions and billions of dollars to do any of the things we used the last pallet of cash to do. We promise. Thank you, and death to America.”
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What I find remarkable and completely hypocritical and double standard and unlawful (in my opinion), is this: we are a distributor in Australia (small family business) for an American product and we currently are undergoing an audit by our US Supplier in regards to our due-diligence, anti-bribery, anti-corruption and it’s going to costs us, a SME, money, resources and time which we do not freely have, in order to install and implement Denied Party Software and processes and procedures to vet companies and countries with embargoes placed on them, who we are not allowed to sell to under US law. It’s optics for US companies.
They want us to ensure we are not selling to the to Iran for example- meanwhile the US Government sends financial aide to Iran themselves and does business with China etc… and lets not forget that his dealings with Ukraine has made the current President Biden a very wealthy criminal of the highest order!
It’s a joke, is it not? 😂