Forced inequality hurts, however, there are times when the pain of witnessing how a nation, an entire nation, is forced to live in misery while a small segment lives disgustingly ostentatiously, the pain becomes acute and nearly unbearable.

The devastating earthquake, which struck the western part of Iran and across the border in Iraq, the flimsy newly built government houses and hospitals becoming deathtraps and the total lack of resources to tend to the victims, is a reminder at what price a small segment of Islamist fascist connected live while Iranians suffer.

Mind you, the uber-misogynistic, expansionist, warmongering and unreformable Islamist fascists claim to be doing it all for the dispossessed:

Airtight sanctions, a la against the despicable South Africa apartheid, works. U.S. lawmakers get to it.