Trade Sanction

Ok, Iran, we told you. We warned you. You didn't play nice. You taunted us. And teased. (Not sure why you'd pick a fight with a kid in the playground 85 times your size, but you did.) So now we're going to punish you...by sanctioning you.

We're going to take away your ability to ship freely around the world. We're gong to heavily tax, like, 100% of all Iranian exports that come to the U.S., totally messing up your Christmas shipments of those little Santas. We're going to make life financially miserable for you until you agree to stop cooking nuclear material that you might rain down on the world the next time you have some crazy religious leader who's just having a bad day.

So...stop. Really. Before we have to vaporize you. Pretty please.



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