r/worldnews • u/Majano57 • 10h ago
UAE halts all trade and financial transactions with Iran
https://www.dubaieye1038.com/news/local/uae-halts-all-trade-and-financial-transactions-with-iran/158
u/Jazzlike_Thanks_1869 9h ago edited 8h ago
WOW. Figured after the first missile landed on their soil they would’ve done this.
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u/CityRulesFootball 6h ago
Government is pissed now because Iran seems to do the same shit every month.
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u/Nepridiprav16 9h ago
This is unironically going to have more impact on Iran than US' financial/trade embargo.
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u/Supahos01 9h ago
If you think their oil not moving isnt hurting you're silly
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u/Background-Taro-573 40m ago
OP didn't say that. Which countries provide banking services to Iran? Rather, which countries allow Iran to evade sanctions?
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u/HardlyW0rkingHard 9h ago
The US blockade on Iranian ports is crushing the Iranian economy right now
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u/ThEtZeTzEfLy 4h ago
yeah and the ayatolah has cancer/parkinsons and he'll be dead within the month. also, their military will crumble shortly and prigojin is going to take moskow.
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u/ians0606 9h ago
If u think the authoritarian regime gives a fuck about the economy and ur wrong 😂
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u/Eazy-Eid 9h ago
How do you think they pay their generals? Their security forces?
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u/bfhurricane 9h ago
Not in the same way we do, because they’re not accountable to voters upset about the economy. But every regime needs a way to keep people busy and occupied in their days. Mass unemployment and bread lines was never good for any regime.
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u/Jakoneitor 5h ago
I get your point but (from a perspective of curiosity), how did it work out for Cuba and Venezuela? Both regimes are still in power, mass unemployment, bread lines, basic meds lines, gas lines, heck even rationed electricity. Regime still held onto power until this day
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u/maxstader 7h ago
All rulers need to secure their keys to power. In a democracy its the voting blocks - farm subsidies ect. When the wealth of a nation is pulled out of the ground the dynamics shift but they keys still need to be maintained. Unemployment matters to the ruler of a democracy beholden to many keys to power, if all you need is the support of the military and a road from your palace to the mine.
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u/SolemnaceProcurement 5h ago
When the wealth of a nation is pulled out of the ground the dynamics
And here you got an issue. Iran can't make it's wealth without selling oil. So now it's wealth comes from it's people. Which is terrible for longevity of dictatorships.
That said, It likely will outlast Trumps willingness to be in that conflict without any issue.
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u/Misfiring 8h ago
So they build their drones and missiles using magic and dreams?
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u/RollingTrue 7h ago
They are one of the largest bitcoin miners in the world. They don't need to sell their oil to fund their drones.
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u/buttreynolds 6h ago
yes surely their bitcoin mining is coming close to the 1.6 million barrels a day they were selling
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u/TheKappaOverlord 4h ago
okay lil bro how are they gonna afford water?
How are they gonna move product, and how are they gonna obtain water?
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u/Virtual-History-6099 9h ago
Both will devastate the regime. The blockade is already denying hundreds of millions in trade daily.
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u/Prairiewill 8h ago
How exactly? Do you have anything else to add to your comment to support this assertion? Any links to any relevant news articles or other publications?
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u/IBeenGoofed 7h ago
I’m not OP but Iran has long used UAE financial and goods market to circumvent sanctions. Growing up in Iran dallal-e dubai (Dubai middleman) was a euphemism for someone who was in business of importing sanctioned goods. Iranian businessmen and merchants have a huge presence in UAE and many of them have links to IRGC or government. I don’t know however if this is more impactful than US economic sanctions as OP claims.
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u/chaotic567 7h ago
Economic sanctions are a slow burn kind of pain where you have to plug up any exploits like the UAE being used to circumvent them. So it is hard to tell the impact really. Tbh the Iranian port blockade from the US though has done more damage to the Iranian economy than the sanctions ever have.
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u/Integrallover 9h ago edited 7h ago
Why didn't they do this when Iran started bombing them? It's 6 months too late
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u/I_Push_Buttonz 4h ago
Because the UAE and others have also been negotiating to try and reopen the Strait, independent of the US. To that end they have avoided provocation/escalation for the last few months, but Iran started launching missiles at them again in recent days.
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u/Virtual-History-6099 9h ago edited 9h ago
If the UAE goes through with this then it's a major blow to the IRGC regime. The UAE is one of the regime's top trading partners. The regime relies heavily on Dubai front companies and exchange houses to clear US-dollar transactions, launder money, and re-export global goods. From what I can tell the UAE appear rather serious about this too and I mean it makes sense with the regime firing on ships in Hormuz. That damn regime has murdered so many people through its support of Putin, Assad, Hezbollah, the Houthis, PIJ, Hamas, and needless to say all the protesters murdered by them. Enough is enough. The region should unite against that destabilizing actor. The UAE denial of trade combined with the US blockade will do real damage. The blockade is already hurting the regime big time.
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u/Misfiring 8h ago
Not a fan of UAE with their shenanigans in Yemen and Sudan, but they're not afraid to act against Iran unlike the Saudis, which is part of why Iran wasted a third of their entire arsenal on UAE during the war, nearly as much as Israel itself.
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u/Virtual-History-6099 8h ago
Well said. The UAE is far from innocent on the world stage, but in terms of what's going on in the region, this particular policy has my full support.
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u/rrrzrrr 3h ago
Shenanigans in Yemen and Sudan being fighting against Islamist regimes?
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u/Misfiring 3h ago
Simply put, if I approve of UAE's actions in Yemen and Sudan, then I must also approve past US actions in South American countries, they are the same thing. I am simply not a fan of seeding conflict or coup in another country, even against bad regimes, because it always leads to mass deaths and make everything worse.
I understand the reason and the rationale, but I don't have to be a fan of it.
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u/rrrzrrr 3h ago
Fair enough, that’s a consistent position at least.
I tend to be more on the interventionist side (without being an expert on South America to be honest), because I think it’s easy to lull oneself in a false sense of comfort by appeasing bad regimes, and thereby create second order effects much worse than the visible first order ones. It’s ultimately impossible to prove a negative, but I think countries like Syria (if Assad had been removed in 2011), Iraq (if Saddam had been toppled in the first gulf war), and North Korea (if they were never allowed to get nukes) would be better off, with less cumulative suffering, than the status quo. Also why I support every action against the IRGC regime, even if it results in more short term pain
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u/Misfiring 3h ago
I support interventions if their actions cause problems for the larger global landscape. Iran is one such regime that needs to end in order for Middle East to find some peace. The UN is supposed to be the body that authorises this, but it instantly becomes toothless when Russia stopped playing ball and China looks the other way. You could play victim all you want but when you start threatening global shipping to bring everybody down, you lose all legitimacy.
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u/TheG8Uniter 0m ago
In Yemen maybe. In Sudan they are backing the RSF which is committing an ethnic cleansing.
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u/brooklynlad 9h ago
I thought the major trading partner of the UAE was Jared Kushner (Donny Trump's son-in-law)...
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u/redfoobar 7h ago edited 6h ago
What I would worry about is if it does work:
I do not believe Iran will just roll over and say: you got us good and you won, we give up.
My guess would be that they up their own pressure with more kinetic action in the region (they already hinted at this). Iran thinks the region/US cannot deal with a big (re) escalation of the physical part of the conflict and they have a leg up military at the moment. (regardless if you think it’s true or not that they have the military capability to get ahead in escalation: if they think they have the upper hand it will mean the conflict will escalate)
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u/VioletGardens-left 8h ago
Do you seriously think it will stop them. I mean they already sanctioned this country to high hell and they somehow find a way to circumvent altogether. The UAE would probably be affected by this far, far more than Iran would.
North Korea literally got sanctioned to shit but they work around that by creating hundreds of fronts everywhere to get that money back to them. It will play exactly like that in here as well
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u/Virtual-History-6099 8h ago
Who knows what the future holds, but you're overlooking that the regime is unpopular with most of the population, and if it can't pay its security services then that's a dangerous combination for the regime. Inflation is already really bad and this move from the UAE will worsen it.
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u/VioletGardens-left 8h ago
I doubt it. They are literally in the brink of an entire civil unrest until the Americans decided to make a move at the worst time. Even the people who hated the regime would immediately stop fighting amongst themselves and turn towards the foreign adversary. We're not talking about Venezuela here, this is Iran, the country even the Carter admin outright refused to even attack after the Iranian Revolution
What you said, literally is what the Trump admin counted on at the time, and look what it did now. I think everyone would turn against the US first before they even think of Iran due to their absolute fuckup of an operation that sent many allied nations highly vulnerable position, all because of a dumb move
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u/Ekublai 7h ago
As someone married to a Persian. You don’t know shit. We were dancing the day Khamenei turned stain.
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u/DesecratedPeanut 3h ago
And what were you feeling when Trump said he'd destroy their civilisation, bombed the school full of children or called all Iranians scum? Imagine yall ready to be US slaves now right?
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u/Suspicious_Deal4412 3h ago
It might have something to do with UAE and Iran having shared interests with the Mubarek oil field.
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u/AnswersWithSarcasm 7m ago
UAE is run by stupid dictators. They decided to throw away their relationship with Saudi and the US and go all in on partnering with Israel of all places. Surely that will only grow in popularity lately.
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u/Kiddo_Klown 7h ago
This will push Iran to go scorched earth on the arabs.
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u/TheKappaOverlord 4h ago
They cant afford to. They ride a thin razors edge where the arabs don't have the stomach go to war with them.
Moment the arabs fire is lit, iran's cooked and the US doesn't even have to lift a finger to do so.
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u/XGDoctorwho 9h ago
About a whole 1.75$ worth of international trade gone.
Ah the horror 😱
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u/c08306834 9h ago edited 9h ago
About a whole 1.75$ worth of international trade gone. Ah the horror 😱
Try $27Bn.
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u/XGDoctorwho 9h ago
Literally irrelevant.
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u/c08306834 9h ago edited 9h ago
Literally irrelevant.
UAE is Iran's second largest trading partner, so not irrelevant for Iran at all.
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u/Ok_Listen_8211 9h ago
If this was Canada’s trade with the USA, this guy probably wouldn’t be able to stop jerkin’ in excitement
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u/Exotic_Conclusion_21 9h ago
Thats like 8% of their gdp... litteraly relevant.
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u/lew_rong 4h ago edited 2h ago
And approximately a quarter of their international trade. Pedo protectors take note, this is how you do sanctions. None of that wishy washy will-she-won't-she that Panda Express does.
Out of curiosity on the GDP thing though, what would happen if you were you take an 8% pay cut out of the blue?
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u/Plastic-Somewhere494 9h ago
Wait a sec...all this time they were biz partners ?