SAEDNEWS: In the early 1970s, with the rise of Salvador Allende’s government in Chile, which aimed to curtail the control of American companies over the country’s natural resources, anti-government protests were intensified through the agitation of foreign agents.
According to the Political Service of Saed News, Shargh Newspaper wrote: They pretended with pots in hand that Allende’s nationalist government policies had caused widespread poverty and that they had nothing to eat. This simple act demonstrated the significance of a new weapon to observers and analysts: the use of poor populations, or those threatened by poverty, by foreign powers as a tool to pressure less-compliant governments.
In recent years, the U.S. government’s sanctions on Iran’s oil industry were designed to limit investment in the oil and gas sector, thereby reducing the country’s production capacity on one hand and gradually restricting foreign currency income on the other, pushing the country toward a path where widespread poverty would create conditions for social unrest and, ultimately, the display of empty pots. Implementing sanctions and restricting foreign currency revenue required the government to make serious efforts to support the livelihoods of low-income groups and, through smart policies, minimize the spread of poverty caused by the intensification and continuation of sanctions. More precisely, it was necessary to prevent the burden of sanctions from falling on low-income and middle-class populations.
